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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 copied after Parmigianino's Cupid making a bow or a version of it available to Stanley.","physicalDescription":"Miniature painting on vellum laid down on card depicting Cupid making a bow, copy after Parmigianino","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Sarah Stanley","id":"A37909"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Parmigianino","id":"A5258"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":"after"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"vellum","id":"x42751"},{"text":"card","id":"x30344"},{"text":"watercolour","id":"AAT15045"}],"techniques":[{"text":"watercolour painting","id":"THES250889"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Watercolour on vellum laid down on card","categories":[{"text":"Paintings","id":"THES48917"},{"text":"Myths & Legends","id":"THES49005"},{"text":"Miniatures","id":"THES269968"},{"text":"Woman Artist","id":"THES387590"}],"styles":[{"text":"British School","id":"x30967"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2024NU8631"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLF","id":"THES49656"},"free":"","case":"RMC","shelf":"7","box":"K"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"miniatures (paintings)","id":"AAT33936"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Britain","id":"x32019"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"12/05/1722","earliest":"1722-05-12","latest":"1722-05-12"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"17.78","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"12.7","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Taken from <u>Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1955-1956</u> London: HMSO 1963","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'S. 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Replicas, copies and engravings exist, and it may be from one of these that Sarah Stanley worked.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Miniature, Cupid making a bow, by Sarah Stanley (born Sloane) after Parmigianino, watercolour on vellum, 1722","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"},{"reference":{"text":"Damiët Schneeweisz, Rosalind McKever, and Adriana Concin. <i>The Portrait Miniature: A New History</i>. 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