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Sloane travelled to Jamaica and eventually married Elizabeth Langley Rose, the heiress to a Jamaican plantation, in 1695. Their fortune from Jamaica funded Sloane’s collecting. Sarah would have grown up in Sloane’s home, which was filled with art, plants, gemstones, coins, antiquities, and other curiosities and gave her unparalleled access to works of art. She began copying works in Sloane’s collection as a teenager—including portraits by Rosalba Carriera and Hilliard’s Unknown Man Clasping A Hand From A Cloud, now in the collection of the V&A. Her style suggests Stanley may have taken further lessons with the miniature painter Bernard Lens. This miniature was painted after Titian's Mary Magdalene or a copy of it. 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Replicas exist, and it may be from one of these, or from an engraving, that Sarah Stanley worked.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Miniature, The Magdalen, by Sarah Stanley (born Sloane) after Titian, watercolour on vellum strained on oak panel, 1723","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1955-1956 </u> London: HMSO, 1963"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Kim Sloan,<i> Amateur Artists and Drawing Masters c. 1600-1800</i>, London: British Museum Publications, 1999"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"Mary Magdalen (Magdalene)","id":"N482"}],"associatedPerson":[{"text":"hans sloane","id":"N12771"},{"text":"titian","id":"A9642"}],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["P.53-1955"],"accessionNumberNum":"53","accessionNumberPrefix":"P","accessionYear":1955,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-15","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-30","availableToBook":false}}