Portrait head
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
Unknown
Materials
Oil paint on canvas
Measurements
500 x 365 mm
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Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 1517042
Summary
Portrait of an unknown lady wearing a lace trimmed gown with a pearl necklace and chain feature hanging from her dark brown hair, sitting against a dark red background. Unlined and unframed oil painting on canvas, likely 17th century. There is evidence of the painting having been cut from it's original frame, the edges folded over and nailed onto a different, smaller structure. The surface is extremely dirty and badly cracked with extensive paint loss down the down the middle of the picture and around the edges.
Provenance
Purchased with the family collection of Abbey contents in situ from Mrs Petronella Burnett-Brown December 2009.