Portrait of Anne Hyde, Duchess of York
c. 1662
Nicholas Dixon
Nicholas Dixon (British, c. 1708)
European Painting and Sculpture
Portrait of Anne Hyde, Duchess of York, c. 1662. Nicholas Dixon (British, c. 1708). Watercolor on vellum in a large wooden frame; framed: 27 x 22 cm (10 5/8 x 8 11/16 in.); unframed: 23 x 18.2 cm (9 1/16 x 7 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Edward B. Greene Collection 1940.1205 This portrait is after a well-known and frequently copied oil painting by Peter Lely; it is nearly identical but with crimson and gold drapery in place of the dressing table and mirror.
- Maker/Artist
- Dixon, Nicholas
- Classification
- Portrait Miniature
- Formatted Medium
- watercolor on vellum in a large wooden frame
- Medium
- watercolor, vellum, large, wooden, frame
- Dimensions
- Framed: 27 x 22 cm (10 5/8 x 8 11/16 in.); Unframed: 23 x 18.2 cm (9 1/16 x 7 3/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Label inside of back: Henry J. Murcott, London. Written in ink on backing: "Anny Hyde, first Wife of James II, Mother of Queen Mary II, Queen Anne. From Lord Currie's collection."
- Departments
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1940.1205
- Credit Line
- The Edward B. Greene Collection
- Exhibitions
- Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America, Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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