SCHOOL OF MARY BEALE

Andrew Marvell (1621-1678), facing left in moss-green coat, wide white lawn collar with tassel, black cloak, long brown hair

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SCHOOL OF MARY BEALE
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678), facing left in moss-green coat, wide white lawn collar with tassel, black cloak, long brown hair
oil on metal
oval, 2 in. (51 mm.) high, silver-gilt frame

Provenance

J. Lumsden Propert (in 1887 and 1889).
Onnes de Nijenrode, Nijenrode Castle; sold, Mensing & fils (Frederik Muller & Co.), Amsterdam, November 1933, no. 829 (93,50 guilders).

Literature

J. L. Propert, A History of Miniature Art, London/New York, 1887, illustrated opp. p. 66 (as by 'Mrs. Beal').
J. J. Foster, Miniature Painters British and Foreign, London/New York, 1903, I, p. 123.
J. J. Foster, Samuel Cooper & the English Miniature Painters of the XVII Century, London, 1914-1916, Supplement, p. 5, no. 10.

Exhibited

London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures, 1889, case XXXIV, no. 19 (as by Mary Beale, lent by J. Lumsden Propert).

Lot Essay

Andrew Marvell, English poet, was born in Yorkshire. After a period as tutor to Lord Fairfax's daughter, he was appointed tutor to Lord Cromwell's ward, William Dutton. In 1650 he wrote Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland and in 1657 became Milton's assistant and later wrote the lines prefixed to the second edition of Paradise Lost. In January 1659, he took his seat in Parliament for Hull and was returned in 1660 and in 1661. From 1663 to 1665 he accompanied Lord Carlisle as secretary to Muscovy, Sweden and Denmark but the rest of his life was devoted to Parliamentary duties.

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