Portrait of Samuel Butler
c. 1715–20
Bernard Lens
Bernard Lens (British, 1681–1740)
European Painting and Sculpture
Portrait of Samuel Butler, c. 1715–20. Bernard Lens (British, 1681–1740). Watercolor on ivory in a period metal frame; framed: 4.5 x 3.7 cm (1 3/4 x 1 7/16 in.); sight: 4.5 x 3.5 cm (1 3/4 x 1 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Edward B. Greene Collection 1940.1215 Lens often signed his work in monogram; this gold signature is well preserved on this example.
- Maker/Artist
- Lens, Bernard, III
- Classification
- Portrait Miniature
- Formatted Medium
- watercolor on ivory in a period metal frame
- Medium
- watercolor, ivory, period, metal, frame
- Dimensions
- Framed: 4.5 x 3.7 cm (1 3/4 x 1 7/16 in.); Sight: 4.5 x 3.5 cm (1 3/4 x 1 3/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed right: BL [in monogram]
- Departments
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1940.1215
- Credit Line
- The Edward B. Greene Collection
- Exhibitions
- Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America, Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives, <em>Main Gallery Rotation (Gallery 202), </em>The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 20, 2008 - September 22, 2008)., <em>Special Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures on Loan, </em>South Kensington Museum, London, England (1865).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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