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1 of 253523 objects
? British School, 17th century
Portrait of a lady, called Mary Fairfax, Duchess of Buckingham (1638-1704). c.1659-1700
Watercolour on vellum laid on card with a gessoed back | 7.3 x 5.9 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 420075
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This miniature has suffered from extensive retouching; it seems, however, to bear some relationship to Samuel Cooper and the fact that it is on vellum on a gessoed card suggests that it originated in the seventeenth-century. The sitter appears to be the same subject who appears in a miniature by Samuel Cooper in the collection of the Duke of Buccleuch, bearing a questionable identification as Mary Fairfax, Duchess of Buckingham.
Provenance
Acquired from J.A. Hatfield in 1856 as part of a group of three miniatures of General Fairfax and his family (also including 420077 and 420078).
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Watercolour on vellum laid on card with a gessoed back
Measurements
7.3 x 5.9 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
8.5 x 7.2 cm (frame, external)
Category
Object type(s)
Other number(s)
Reynolds 1999 : Reynolds, G., 1999. The Sixteenth & Seventeenth Century Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, London – Reynolds 1999 130Cust 1910 : Cust, L., 1910. Windsor Castle: Portrait Miniatures, London – Cust 1910 II/97
