MATTHEW SNELLING (fl. 1644-1670)

Frances Cranfield, Countess of Dorset, facing left in blue dress with white underslip, drop pearl pendant suspended from a black ribbon at corsage, pearl brooches adorning her right sleeve, pearl necklace and pearls in her brown hair dressed in ringlets;

细节
MATTHEW SNELLING (fl. 1644-1670)
Frances Cranfield, Countess of Dorset, facing left in blue dress with white underslip, drop pearl pendant suspended from a black ribbon at corsage, pearl brooches adorning her right sleeve, pearl necklace and pearls in her brown hair dressed in ringlets; brown stone and sky background, within gold border
signed and dated on the reverse 'M.S. fe Aprill 1655.'
on vellum
oval, 2½ in. (64 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with spiral cresting
来源
Robert Bayne-Powell, C.B.
出版
D. Foskett, Collecting Miniatures, Woodbridge, 1979, p. 57, ('Miniatures by Snelling are rare'), illustrated p. 56, colour pl. 3E.
D. Foskett, Miniatures: Dictionary and Guide, Woodbridge, 1987, p. 57, illustrated p. 56, colour pl. 3E.

拍品专文

A variant of this miniature, signed with initials and dated August 1654 on the reverse was exhibited in Edinburgh, The Arts Council Gallery, British Portrait Miniatures, 1965, no. 123, illustrated pl. 34.