Mrs Priestman
Portrait Miniature
ca.1690 (painted)
ca.1690 (painted)
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Portrait of a woman, turned to front, and wearing a headdress; oval on a rectangular sheet. Features in long soft diagonal strokes of brown, blended with blue, white and some sanguine, touches of black and white in the eyes, red in the lips, on a pale pinkish carnation ground; hair worked in grey, brown and bluish gouache over a brown wash; head-dress in white over a brown wash; dress in solid blue wash, modelled with black and with the lights in white; mantle in opaque browns; lace at breast in impasted white over a grey wash; background a pale brown wash, hatched with darker colour lower left and to the right of figure; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.
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Title | Mrs Priestman (assigned by artist) |
Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book |
Brief description | Portrait miniature of Mary Priestman, née Rosse, watercolour on vellum by Susannah-Penelope Rosse, ca.1690. |
Physical description | Portrait of a woman, turned to front, and wearing a headdress; oval on a rectangular sheet. Features in long soft diagonal strokes of brown, blended with blue, white and some sanguine, touches of black and white in the eyes, red in the lips, on a pale pinkish carnation ground; hair worked in grey, brown and bluish gouache over a brown wash; head-dress in white over a brown wash; dress in solid blue wash, modelled with black and with the lights in white; mantle in opaque browns; lace at breast in impasted white over a grey wash; background a pale brown wash, hatched with darker colour lower left and to the right of figure; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. |
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Content description | Portrait of a woman wearing a headdress, facing front. |
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Marks and inscriptions | 'Mrs Preistman[sic]' (Inscribed in metal-point on the back) |
Object history | Provenance: Presumably acquired from Cooper's estate by the Rosses, or perhaps by Priestman (see Rosse, Cat. No. 143) and perhaps in the Michael Rosse sale, 2 April 1723; eventually purchased by Edwin [Durning] Lawrence before 1862, and sold by him to the Museum for £525 in 1892. |
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Bibliographic reference | Murdoch, John. Seventeenth-century English Miniatures in the Collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London: The Stationery Office in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum, 1997.
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Accession number | 452-1892 |
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Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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