Not on display

Amy Robsart

Oil Painting
ca.1833 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Oil on mahogany panel depicting Amy Robsart, a 16th century Countess of Leicester.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleAmy Robsart (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on mahogany panel
Brief description
Oil painting by Charles Robert Leslie depicting Amy Robsart, Countess of Leicester (1525?-1560). Great Britain, ca. 1833.
Physical description
Oil on mahogany panel depicting Amy Robsart, a 16th century Countess of Leicester.
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 27.7cm
  • Estimate width: 23cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990
Style
Marks and inscriptions
'C R Leslie./1833' (Inscribed by the artist on the back)
Credit line
Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Object history
Given by John Sheepshanks, 1857
Production
Inscribed by the artist in paint on the back 'C R Leslie./1833', but listed under 1836 in Autobiographical Recollections (vol. 2, p. 230).
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, p. 170
Collection
Accession number
FA.123[O]

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Record createdApril 4, 2007
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