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Features in dark brown hatches with touches of sanguine and grey, white highlights in the eyes, red in the lips, on a pale creamy carnation ground; hair in dark brown and black over a pale brown wash, stippled in dark colour at the hair-line; ruff in impasted white over a pale brown; doublet modelled in pale grey and black over black wash; background a solid blue wash, shadowed above the shoulder in fine dark grey hatches; on vellum put down on pasteboard, apparently a playing card (diamond?) and the whole mounted in a rectangular vellum, ruled and inscribed in gold with a crimson margin.   \r\n \r\n<u>Frame:</u> A gilt rim of V-section knurled and channelled between bevels, the glass held in rebate and with a toothed copper strip to close the back; designed for fitting to a fabric-covered cushion frame.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Oliver, Peter","id":"A8708"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"vellum","id":"x42751"},{"text":"watercolour","id":"AAT15045"}],"techniques":[{"text":"painting","id":"AAT54216"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Watercolour on vellum put down on pasteboard","categories":[{"text":"Paintings","id":"THES48917"},{"text":"Portraits","id":"THES48906"},{"text":"Royalty","id":"THES48899"}],"styles":[{"text":"Stuart","id":"AAT21037"},{"text":"English School","id":"x44855"},{"text":"Jacobean","id":"AAT107014"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2016JA2802","2006AG1635","2006BC5010"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLF","id":"THES49656"},"free":"","case":"RMC","shelf":"1","box":"C"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"miniature","id":"AAT33936"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Netherlands","id":"x29020"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":"probably"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1620-1625","earliest":"1615-01-01","latest":"1625-12-31"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by Mrs Doris Hershorn","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"49","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"39.5","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions taken from John Murdoch <u>Seventeenth-century English Miniatures in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum</u>. 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The earliest account of their history (Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower, The Great Historic Galleries of England, London, 1881, pl. xx) is highly romanticized and claims provenance from James II via Louis XIV which cannot be proved.  Their certain history is as follows: acquired in Paris by James Edwards (1757-1816), bookseller and bibliographer, probably in the aftermath of the Treaty of Amiens; sold Christie’s July 15th 1816 (lot 61); acquired by the Rev. Thomas Butt of Kinnersley, Shropshire, who married Edward’s widow; by descent to Capt. H. 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