An Unknown Man, formerly called Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford
Portrait Miniature
late 1650s (painted)
late 1650s (painted)
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Portrait, head and shoulders, turned to right and looking to front. Features in short, free hatches of brown and sanguine, shadowed with blue-grey and heavily worked and heightened with gouache, on a yellowish carnation ground; hair in pale brown wash, hatched in darker brown with the lights in gouache; costume in dark grey wash, hatched in black; the collar in grey wash heightened with white and with some grey shadowing; background partly a solid dark wash, partly sky in washes of grey and blue; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.
Frame
Evidently re-framed by the Josephs. as Cat. Nos 6S, 72 and 94; packed out with fragmentary trade cards.
Frame
Evidently re-framed by the Josephs. as Cat. Nos 6S, 72 and 94; packed out with fragmentary trade cards.
Object details
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| Title | An Unknown Man, formerly called Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum, put down on a leaf from a table-book |
| Brief description | Portrait miniature of an unknown man, formerly called Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford. Watercolour on vellum by Samuel Cooper, late 1650s. |
| Physical description | Portrait, head and shoulders, turned to right and looking to front. Features in short, free hatches of brown and sanguine, shadowed with blue-grey and heavily worked and heightened with gouache, on a yellowish carnation ground; hair in pale brown wash, hatched in darker brown with the lights in gouache; costume in dark grey wash, hatched in black; the collar in grey wash heightened with white and with some grey shadowing; background partly a solid dark wash, partly sky in washes of grey and blue; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. Frame Evidently re-framed by the Josephs. as Cat. Nos 6S, 72 and 94; packed out with fragmentary trade cards. |
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| Content description | Oval portrait miniature of a man with receeding hair. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Credit line | Given by Mrs Emma Joseph |
| Object history | Provenance: Perhaps as given by Foster 1914-16, below; S S Joseph: Mrs Emma Joseph, by whom presented to the Museum, May 1941. |
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| Accession number | P.21-1941 |
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| Record created | July 3, 2003 |
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