Portrait of a Man and Woman

c. 1860

British 19th Century

Associated Names
British 19th Century

Artist

The image shows a seated couple captured in a half-body portrait. The man on the left has short, gray hair, deep-set eyes, and a serious expression. He wears a black suit with a vest and a bow tie. The woman on the right has medium-length gray hair with a decorative headpiece and a composed look. She wears a dark dress with a light blue shawl, a necklace, and holds her hands together in her lap. The background is a simple dark backdrop. The photograph is in an ornate, gold-trimmed frame with intricate designs, set against a red velvet mat.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    ambrotype with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image (visible): 7 × 6 cm (2 3/4 × 2 3/8 in.)
    mat: 8.1 × 7 cm (3 3/16 × 2 3/4 in.)
    case (closed): 9.3 × 8.2 × 1.91 cm (3 11/16 × 3 1/4 × 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2019.1.14

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ashworth Family, England; (sale, England, 2017); (Jason Wright, Huddersfield, England); NGA purchase, 2019.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on bottom edge of case, by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite on applied label: PD372 M

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