The Lady Essex Finch

c. 1680

Alexander Browne

Associated Names
Alexander Browne

Artist, English, active late 17th century

Sir Peter Lely

Artist After, English, born Germany, 1618 - 1680

The image displays a woman sitting with a slight leftward turn. She has curly, shoulder-length hair and a calm expression, wearing a gown with voluminous sleeves and a bow on one shoulder. She has one hand on her lap and the other slightly raised. In the background, there are trees and a cloudy sky.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper [counterproof]

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 23.7 x 24.8 cm (9 5/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 24.6 x 25.2 cm (9 11/16 x 9 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2001.118.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 10

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Christopher Lennox-Boyd; (Nicholas Stogdon, Oxford); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1884

  • Smith, John Chaloner. British mezzotinto portraits, being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century. 4 vols. London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1884.

Inscriptions

lower center of plate, in reverse: The Lady Essex Finch; lower right of plate, in reverse: P. Lelly Equis / Invenit.; lower left of plate, in reverse: Sold by Alex Browne at ye blue Ballcony / in little Queen Street

Wikidata ID

Q76335491

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