RICHARD GIBSON (1615-1690)

Elizabeth Capell, Countess of Carnarvon, facing right in low-cut white dress with yellow bodice, diamond clasps at corsage, fur cloak draped around her shoulders, drop pearl earrings and a rope of pearls entwined in her curled brown hair

細節

RICHARD GIBSON (1615-1690)
Elizabeth Capell, Countess of Carnarvon, facing right in low-cut white dress with yellow bodice, diamond clasps at corsage, fur cloak draped around her shoulders, drop pearl earrings and a rope of pearls entwined in her curled brown hair
signed, dated and inscribed on the reverse 'Elizabeth Capell Countess of Carnarvon 1657 DGibson Ascot J[anu] Fec: 31.'
on vellum
oval, 36 in. (79 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with spiral cresting

來源

Lord Wharncliffe (in 1865).

出版

J. J. Foster, Samuel Cooper and the English Miniature painters of the XVII Century, London, 1914-16, Supplement, p. 118, no. 7.
J. Murdoch, J. Murrell, P. J. Noon, R. Strong, The English Miniature, London, 1981, p. 219, note 93, p. 220, note 142, illustrated p. 132, no. 142.

展覽

London, South Kensington Museum, Special Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures, 1865, no. 1573 (lent by Lord Wharncliffe).

拍品專文

Elizabeth (1633-1678), younger daughter of Arthur Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Hadham, and Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir Charles Morrison, Bt., married Charles (Dormer), 2nd Earl of Carnarvon who had taken on the patronage of Richard Gibson, from his grandfather, the 4th Earl of Pembroke.

For an updated account on Richard Gibson, see J. Murdoch, Seventeenth-century English Miniatures, London, 1997, p. 173-199.