David Teniers the Younger
Portrait Miniature
late 18th century-early 19th century (painted)
late 18th century-early 19th century (painted)
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Portrait miniature of a man, head and shoulders, turned slightly to right and looking to front; a landscape in the background. Features in very short hatching strokes of sanguine and grey, with white blending and heightening, on a thin, pale carnation ground; hair in dark brown wash, hatched and lined in darker colour and with pale gouache lights; collar in pale grey wash with the lights, especially on the fringe, in thick white; sky background in blue wash, hatched in darker colour, and with the clouds in grey and ochre washes, hatched with darker colour and with white heightening; on vellum put down on pasteboard backed with a sheet of blue paper.
Frame: Nineteenth-century copper-gilt rim, with a flat granulated face between two concave quadrants, holding a convex glass in a rebate; the back closed by a toothed copper strip holding a green velvet-covered card backboard.
Frame: Nineteenth-century copper-gilt rim, with a flat granulated face between two concave quadrants, holding a convex glass in a rebate; the back closed by a toothed copper strip holding a green velvet-covered card backboard.
Object details
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| Title | David Teniers the Younger (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum put down on pasteboard and backed with a sheet of blue paper |
| Brief description | Portrait miniature of David Teniers the younger, watercolour on vellum, in imitation of an original self-portrait by David Teniers, late 18th-early 19th century. |
| Physical description | Portrait miniature of a man, head and shoulders, turned slightly to right and looking to front; a landscape in the background. Features in very short hatching strokes of sanguine and grey, with white blending and heightening, on a thin, pale carnation ground; hair in dark brown wash, hatched and lined in darker colour and with pale gouache lights; collar in pale grey wash with the lights, especially on the fringe, in thick white; sky background in blue wash, hatched in darker colour, and with the clouds in grey and ochre washes, hatched with darker colour and with white heightening; on vellum put down on pasteboard backed with a sheet of blue paper. Frame: Nineteenth-century copper-gilt rim, with a flat granulated face between two concave quadrants, holding a convex glass in a rebate; the back closed by a toothed copper strip holding a green velvet-covered card backboard. |
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| Content description | Portrait of a man, head and shoulders, wearing a dark gown with white collar, a landscape behind. |
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| Object history | Provenance: J Heywood Hawkins in 1865; by descent to C HT Hawkins, his sale, 10-17 May 1904, lot 1031, bt Durlacher on behalf of the Museum. |
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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 | 801-1904 |
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| Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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