Behind her, drapery is pulled back to reveal a bucolic landscape, a common trope in portraits at the time ... Black subjects from the 17th to 19th centuries opens in November.
Engraved portrait of Mary Darcy, Lady Darcy of Chiche (1565/6-1644). Stipple engraving by R. Cooper after an unknown artist. Mary married Thomas Darcy, 3rd Baron Darcy of Chiche in 1583 but the ...
The illicit portraits could be hidden away in a case, and stuffed inside a pocket. These play-miniatures were produced in some numbers but, by the 19th century, small portraits were mass-produced ...