An Unknown Lady in Elizabethan Dress
Continental School
Category
Art / Miniatures
Date
circa 1850
Materials
Watercolour on ivory, metal
Measurements
90 mm (H)72 mm (W)
Order this imageCollection
Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 1246540
Summary
Portrait miniature, watercolour on card, An Unknown Lady in Elizabethan Dress, Continental School, c.1850. Oval. Half-length portrait of a young woman, turned slightly to the right, gazing at the spectator, wearing the clothes of the 1580s, a black dress decorated with pearls. Dark eyes, fair hair or wig, dressed with jewels.
Makers and roles
Continental School, miniaturist previously catalogued as by British (English) School, miniaturist