John Somers
Portrait Miniature
ca.1666-1670 (painted)
ca.1666-1670 (painted)
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Portrait, half-length, turned to left and looking to front; the sitter is wearing a patterned lace neckcloth. Features in firm hatches of brown and sanguine with some grey shadow and white heightening, thickly blended over a pale carnation ground; hair in brown washes, hatched in darker colour and heightened with gouache; robe in opaque blue, hatched with dark grey and the lights in white; white collar; on a dark gummy brown background; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | John Somers (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour on vellum, put down on a leaf from a table-book and contained in a gold locket |
| Brief description | Portrait minaiture of John Somers in a gold locket. Watercolour on vellum by Samuel Cooper, ca.1666-1670. |
| Physical description | Portrait, half-length, turned to left and looking to front; the sitter is wearing a patterned lace neckcloth. Features in firm hatches of brown and sanguine with some grey shadow and white heightening, thickly blended over a pale carnation ground; hair in brown washes, hatched in darker colour and heightened with gouache; robe in opaque blue, hatched with dark grey and the lights in white; white collar; on a dark gummy brown background; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book. |
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| Content description | Portrait, head and shoulders, of a man in a lace neckcloth. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'SC 1666' (Falsely signed in yellow paint) |
| Credit line | Alan Evans Bequest, given by the National Gallery |
| Object history | Provenance: According to a note by Long in the Wallop Loan Book, the miniature had been in the collection of 'the late Stracey Clitheroe of Boston House, near Brentford': acquired by the Hon. F H A Wallop in 1922 and lent to the V&A, 1927-49; given in 1933 to Alan Evans, by whom bequeathed to the National Gallery, 1974; placed on indeterminate loan at theV&A. (See Appendix 3.) |
| Production | It is probable that another hand was involved in the production of this painting. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Murdoch, John. Seventeenth-century English Miniatures in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: The Stationery Office, 1997. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | EVANS.41 |
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| Record created | July 11, 2003 |
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