Lot Details
Description
ENGLISH SCHOOL, 1619
PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG LADY, TRADITIONALLY IDENTIFIED AS MISS CULPEPER
Oil and gold paint on silver, unframed, associated leather case;
inscribed and dated centre right: AET 5 / 1619, inscribed in a later hand verso: Colepepper [sic] / family - / 1619 / found in the / Gardens of / Preston Hall / Kent
72 by 55 mm.
Condition Report
Some specs of paint loss all over, most notable in the hair and on hand. The inscription is now indistinct. Overall charming.
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Cataloguing
Provenance
Sale, London, Christie's, 26 June 1980, lot 84
Literature
Foskett, 1989, pp. 60, 61 and 64, illust.
Catalogue Note
According to the inscription on the reverse of this miniature the work was re-discovered at Preston Hall, Kent. The Hall was the seat of the Culpeper family between 1300 and 1734. The Baronetcy of Culpeper was created in 1627 for William Culpeper (1588-1651).