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This miniature of Sir Arundel Talbot dating from 1596 is inscribed with a note by Oliver explaining that it was painted when he was in Venice. This visit to Italy was unusual for an English artist, but it is notable that Oliver signed the work \"Francese IO\", emphasising his French birth. Oliver's knowledge of Continental art is apparent in a number of his miniatures. \r\n\r\nThis work shows what might have been achieved after two of the three customary sittings, working directly onto the vellum. The features have begun to be modelled over the carnation colour, using hatches of red and brown, but more detail is needed. The card support for the miniature has not been trimmed, and details of Talbot’s outfit are incomplete.","physicalDescription":"Portrait miniature of a man, half-length, wearing a black doublet; oval portrait held in an octangonal frame with a loop at the top.  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It appears to be the fruit of probably two sittings, with only the beginnings of the hatching in of the features; the ear, for example, has been begun and the dress is also incomplete.\r\n\r\nThe reverse contains a much later seventeenth century inscription giving the identity of the sitter as a certain Sit Arundell Talbot.  No evidence has yet appeared to support the existence of such a person and the sitter could, equally well, be an Italian.\r\n<i>\r\n</i>\r\n"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"p. 39","free":"Catharine MacLeod with Rab MacGibbon, Victoria Button, Katherine Coombs and Alan Derbyshire.‎ <u>Elizabethan treasures : miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver</u>. 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