A Young Girl, the daughter of Nicholas Elton
Daniel Mytens the elder (Delft c.1590 – The Hague 1648)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1610
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1321 x 775 mm (52 x 30 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Clevedon Court, North Somerset
NT 624171
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Young Girl by Daniel Mytens the elder (c.1590-1648), circa 1610. A full-length portrait of a young girl, the daughter of Sir Nicholas Elton (p31 2001 revised edition of guidebook), full-length, turned to the right, gazing at spectator, her left hand in front resting on a table on the right, holding a posy of flowers, her right hand by her side holding a pair of fawn, white silk-lined gloves. She has pale brown hair, drawn back and dressed with (?) pearls and is wearing a dark coloured dress with three-quarter length sleeves, a gold silk sash worn from her right shoulder, and a gossamer, spider-woven lace ruff. Dark background.
Provenance
Purchased from Lady Margaret Ann Elton (1915 – 1995), 1981 with the help of grants from the V&A Purchase Fund and the NHMF
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: Top stretcher bar: 206; lowere stretcher bar: typed label '58. UNidentified Full length A Young Girl in a ruff, her left hand reting on a table with a silver Jacobean cup. Oil on canvas 52" x 30 1/2" Att est date 1610; written on stretcher and frmae in chalk '1'
Makers and roles
Daniel Mytens the elder (Delft c.1590 – The Hague 1648), artist
References
Clevedon Court [The National Trust] revised 1972, 1974, 1977, 1979, p.26 and shown in the illustration of the Great Hall facing p 24: "...the Great Hall...Below [the portrait of Sir Edmund Harry Elton, 8th Bt (1846-1920)], there hangs a full length portrit of an unknown young Jacobean girl."