Property from the collection of the late Timothy Clowes
Nicholas Hilliard
Portrait of a lady
Lot Closed
September 23, 04:05 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the collection of the late Timothy Clowes
Nicholas Hilliard
Exeter 1547 - 1619 London
Portrait of a lady
Watercolour, bodycolour and gold on vellum, gold and silver-gilt frame decorated with an enamel border;
inscribed in gold: Anno Dom: 1581:
55 by 44 mm
John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913);
his executor's sale, London, Christie’s, 24 June 1935, lot 100, (as Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots (100 gns. To Dr. Beets));
Dr. Anton F. Philips:
sale, London, Christie’s, 6 July 1993, lot 5
his executor's sale, London, Christie’s, 24 June 1935, lot 100, (as Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots (100 gns. To Dr. Beets));
Dr. Anton F. Philips:
sale, London, Christie’s, 6 July 1993, lot 5
C.J. Holmes, 'A supposed Portrait of Mary Queen of Scots by Nicholas Hilliard', The Burlington Magazine, September 1904, p. 573;
G.C. Williamson, Catalogue of the collection of miniatures, The Property of John Pierpont Morgan, London 1906, vol. I, no. 20, pl. XIV, no. 2, pl. no. 8;
G.C. Williamson, Portrait Miniatures, London 1910, p. 5, pl. 111
G.C. Williamson, Catalogue of the collection of miniatures, The Property of John Pierpont Morgan, London 1906, vol. I, no. 20, pl. XIV, no. 2, pl. no. 8;
G.C. Williamson, Portrait Miniatures, London 1910, p. 5, pl. 111
In the sitter's rosy cheeks and clear complexion, and also in the way the eyes have been defined with fine lines, this appealing work can be comparable to Hilliard's miniature of Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Albans, painted in 1578 (National Portrait Gallery, London, acc. no. 6761).
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