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Short Notice
Observations about the abandoned portrait beneath Gainsborough’s ‘Blue boy’
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 261–265
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Author:
O'Connell, Christina Milton (O'Connell, Christina Milton)
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1. Digital X-radiograph of Fig.2, captured through all layers of the painting, including the wooden auxiliary support.
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2. Blue boy (after treatment), by Thomas Gainsborough. c.1770. Oil on canvas, 177.8 by 112.1 cm. (Huntington Library and Art Museum, San Marino).
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3. John Joshua Kirby, by Thomas Gainsborough. c.1754–56. Oil on canvas, 41.9 by 29.2 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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4. Infra-red reflectography of Fig.2, showing the preliminary lines of the abandoned portrait, including the contours of the face, coat, and shoulders. A dark layer of paint was applied over the abandoned portrait, slightly obscuring the legibility of the details in IRR.
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5. Detail of Fig.1.
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6. Detail of Fig.1, showing additional details of the abandoned portrait’s face.
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7. Cross-section of Fig.2, taken at the top fold-over edge contains, from bottom to top: the off-white double ground layer; a paint layer from the abandoned portrait’s face; and the dark layer of paint that Gainsborough applied over the abandoned portrait followed by the thinly applied paint of the sky for the Blue boy composition.
Short Notice
Dogs, Vergers and Murillo’s ‘El Perdiguero’
12/2023 | 1449 | 165
Pages: 1333–1335
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Author:
Pullins, David (Pullins, David)
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1. Don Andrés de Andrade y Cal, by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. 1665–72. Oil on canvas, 200.7 by 119.4 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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2. Detail of Fig.1, showing the dog’s features.
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3. Portrait of a dog, by Domenico Maria Sani. c.1725–45. Oil on canvas, 123.5 by 169 cm. (Pinacoteca Civica, Forlí).
Article
George Gower: portraitist, Mercer, Serjeant Painter
09/2020 | 1410 | 162
Pages: 730-747
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Author:
Town, Edward (Town, Edward)
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1. Self-portrait, by George Gower. 1579. Panel, 56.4 by 49.6 cm. (Private collection).
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10. Richard Drake, by George Gower. 1577. Oil on panel, 91.1 by 71.1 cm. (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich).
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11. Infra-red detail of Fig.12, showing the sitter’s eye with pentimento of the iris.
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12. Called Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton, by George Gower. 1572. Oil on panel, 54 by 34.5 cm. (The Bute Collection, Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute).
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13. Sir Henry Sidney, here attributed to George Gower. 1573. Oil on panel, 202 by 122 cm. (Petworth House, Sussex).
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14. Sir Henry Sidney, here attributed here to George Gower. c.1573. Oil on panel, 67.6 by 52.5 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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15. Details of Figs.16 and 13, showing the sitters’s right eye and nose.
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16. Sir Henry Sidney, here attributed here to George Gower. c.1573. Oil on paper, 30.5 by 27.9 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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17. Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex, here attributed to George Gower. c.1572. Oil on panel, 193.2 by 110 cm. (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge).
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18. Elizabeth I (The Hampden Portrait), here attributed to George Gower. c.1567. Oil on panel, 196 by 140 cm. (Private collection; Philip Mould & Co., London).
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19. Detail of an infra-red photograph of Fig.17 (left); and a tracing of the features evident in the underlying portrait (right).
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2. Sir Thomas Kytson, by George Gower. 1573. Panel, 53 by 36.9 cm. (Tate, London).
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20. Detail of an infra-red photograph of Fig.18.
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21. Elizabeth I (The Fonthill Portrait), here attributed to George Gower. c.1567. Oil on panel, 45.7 by 33 cm. (Private collection).
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22. Elizabeth I (The Berger/Northwick Park portrait), here attributed to George Gower. c.1567. Panel, 54 by 43.2 cm. (The Berger Collection, Denver Art Museum).
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23. Elizabeth I, here attributed to George Gower. c.1580. Pencil and watercolour on paper, 15.2 by 18.4 cm. (National Portrait Gallery London).
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24. Elizabeth I (The Ermine portrait), here attributed to George Gower. 1585. [Oil on?] panel, 105.4 by 86.4 cm. (Hatfield House, Hertfordshire).
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3. Inscriptions attributed to Gower’s hand from the following portraits, from top to bottom: called Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton, 1572 (Fig.12); Elizabeth Cornwalllis, Lady Kytson, 1573 (fig.4); Francis Hart of Lullingstone Castle, 1573 (private collection); Elizabeth Knollys, Lady Leighton, 1577 (Fig.8); and Frances, Lady Brydges, 1579 (Fig.5).
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4. Elizabeth Cornwallis, Lady Kytson, by George Gower. 1573. Panel, 68.3 by 52.1 cm. (Tate, London).
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5. Frances, Lady Brydges, by George Gower. 1579. Panel, 91.1 by 68.6 cm. (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).
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6. Details of Figs.4, 5, 8 and 9 showing the sitters’ right eyes.
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7. Details of Figs.8 and 5, showing gold-mounted jewels.
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8. Elizabeth Knollys, Lady Leighton, by George Gower. 1577. Panel, 61 by 45 cm. (Montacute House, Somerset, National Trust).
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9. Lady Philippa Coningsby, by George Gower. 1578. Panel, 93 by 70.1 cm. (Indianapolis Museum of Art).
Exhibition Review
Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture
04/2019 | 1393 | 161
Pages: 326-328
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Pincus, Debra (Pincus, Debra)
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10. Gentleman in adoration before the Madonna and Child, by Giovanni Battista Moroni. c.1555. Canvas, 59.7 by 64.8 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington; exh. Frick Collection, New York).
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8. Gian Ludovico Madruzzo, by Giovanni Battista Moroni. c.1551– 52. Canvas, 199.8 by 116 cm. (Art Institute of Chicago; exh. Frick Collection, New York).
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9. Installation view of Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture at the Frick Collection, New York, showing Isotta Brembati, by Giovanni Battista Moroni. c.1555–56. Canvas, 160 by 115 cm. (Fondazione Museo di Palazzo Moroni, Bergamo). In front is a vitrine with a display of accessories similar to the ones shown in the portrait (photograph Michael Bodycomb).
Article
Reconsidering Whistler's portrait of Henry Irving
09/2016 | 1362 | 158
Pages: 723-729
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Author:
Teniswood-Harvey, Arabella (Teniswood-Harvey, Arabella)
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28. Arrangement in black, No.3: Sir Henry Irving as Philip II of Spain, by James McNeill Whistler. 1876, reworked 1885 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
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29. Philip II of Spain, by Titian. 1551 (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid)
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30. Philip II of Spain, after Titian. 1555 (National Portrait Gallery, London)
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31. Philip IV, by Diego Velázquez. 1623-28 (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid)
Western art unattributed:
32. Costume for Henry Irving as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, maker unknown. 1882 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
Western art unattributed:
33. Arrangement in black, No.3, photograph of Fig.28 in an incomplete state. c.1876 (Glasgow University Library, Scotland)
Article
Francis Cotes’s portraits of Sir Griffith and Lady Boynton
05/2016 | 1358 | 158
Pages: 349–357
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Author:
Salomon, Xavier F. (Salomon, Xavier F.)
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19. Burton Agnes Hall, by William Marlow. c.1762-65 (Burton Agnes Hall, East Yorkshire)
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20. Sir Griffith Boynton, 6th Baronet (1744-78), by Francis Cotes. 1769 (Collection of Mrs Henry Clay Frick II, on loan to the Frick Collection, New York)
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21. Mary Heblethwayte, Lady Boynton (1749-1815), by Francis Cotes. 1768 (Collection of Mrs Henry Clay Frick II, on loan to the Frick Collection, New York)
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22. Fig.20 in the Drawing Room at Eagle Rock, Prides Crossing, MA, before 1938
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23. Mary Heblethwayte, Lady Boynton (1749-1815), by Samuel Cotes. 1768-69 (Private collection)
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24. Fig.20 in the Drawing Room at Eagle Rock, Prides Crossing, MA, after 1938
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26. Portrait of Lady Boynton in the Great Hall at Burton Agnes Hall, East Yorkshire, before 1911
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27. Sir Peter Byrne Leicester, by Francis Cotes. 1769 (Tabley House, Cheshire)
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28. Mary Heblethwayte, Lady Boynton (1749-1815), by James Watson after Francis Cotes. 1770 (National Portrait Gallery, London)
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29. Monument to Sir Griffith Boynton, by William Mason and John Bacon. c.1778 (Burton Agnes Church, East Yorkshire)
Western art unattributed:
25. Detail of seventeenth-century plasterwork on the ceiling of the Queen's State Bedroom, Burton Agnes Hall, East Yorkshire
Article
Alfred Stevens and the arts of Asia
01/2015 | 1342 | 157
Pages: 14-17
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Author:
Lees, Sarah (Lees, Sarah )
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15. A duchess (The blue dress), by Alfred Stevens (Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown MA)
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16. Manga vol.14, p.3r, by Katsushika Hokusai (British Museum, London)
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17. Manga vol.14, pp.6r, 5v, by Katsushika Hokusai (British Museum, London)
Article
‘Eliza Fortuna’: reconsidering the Ditchley portrait of Elizabeth I
05/2014 | 1334 | 156
Pages: 293-298
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Author:
Jewitt, James R. (Jewitt, James R.)
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1. Allegory of Fortune, by Frans Francken II (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
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2. Queen Elizabeth I (the Ditchley portrait), by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (National Portrait Gallery, London)
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3. Detail of John Farnham, gentleman pensioner to Elizabeth I, by Steven van Herwijck (Worcester Art Museum, Worcester MA)
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4. Fortuna, by Theodor de Bry. Engraving. Printed in T. de Bry: Emblemata Nobilitati, Fankfurt 1592, no.3 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
Western art unattributed:
5. Detail of Queen Elizabeth I, by an unknown artist (Elizabethan Club, Yale University, New Haven)
Article
A note on the young Van Dyck
02/2014 | 1331 | 156
Pages: 85-90
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Author:
Alsteens, Stijn (Alsteens, Stijn)
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11. The Jesuit Nicolas Trigault in Chinese costume, by Anthony van Dyck (Morgan Library & Museum, New York)
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12. The Jesuit Nicolas Trigault in Chinese costume, by Peter Paul Rubens (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
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13. The Jesuit Nicolas Trigault in Chinese costume, attributed to the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens (Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai)
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14. A man leaning forward with studies of his outstretched arm, by Anthony van Dyck (Courtauld Gallery, London)
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15. Detail of Mars and Venus (after the antique), by Anthony van Dyck (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg)
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16. Portrait of a standing man (Alexander Vincque?), by Anthony van Dyck (National Gallery of Art, Washington)
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17. Portrait of a standing man (Alexander Vincque?), by Anthony van Dyck (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp)
Article
The evolution of Gainsborough’s portrait of Elizabeth Sheridan
04/2013 | 1321 | 155
Pages: 238-242
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Author:
Christiansen, Carol (Christiansen, Carol)
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Luciano, Eleanora (Luciano, Eleanora)
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24. Elizabeth Sheridan, Mrs Richard Sheridan, by Thomas Gainsborough. 1785-87. Canvas, 219.7 by 153.7 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington, Andrew W. Mellon Collection).
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25. X-radiograph of Fig.24 showing a more rustic bodice, Leghorn hat and a lamb on the right.
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26. Elizabeth and Thomas Linley, by Thomas Gainsborough. 1768. Canvas, 69.8 by 62.3 cm. (Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown).
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27. Mrs Richard Brinsley Sheridan, by Thomas Gainsborough. c.1775. Canvas, 76.2 by 63.5 cm. (Philadelphia Museum of Art, George W. Elkins Collection).
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28. The Linley sisters, by Thomas Gainsborough. 1772 and 1786. Canvas, 199 by 153 cm. (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London).
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29. Haymaker and sleeping girl, by Thomas Gainsborough. c.1786-87. Canvas, 227.3 by 149.9 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, M. Theresa B. Hopkins Fund and Seth K. Sweetser Fund).
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30. X-radiograph of the head of Mrs Sheridan in Fig.24.
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31. X-radiograph of a detail from the lower right of Fig.24 showing a lamb's head.
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32. Infra-red reflectogram mosaic of a detail from Fig.24, showing a basket (outlined in red) and a shepherd's crook (outlined in yellow).
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