Portrait miniature of Anne of Denmark

Isaac Oliver (1558/68 - 1617)

National Portrait Gallery

Portrait of Queen Anne of Denmark (1574-1619), consort of James VI and I. Depicts the sitter's head and shoulders, a jewelled pendant between the thumb and index finger of sitter, in a low-cut dress with a wide lace wired collar parted in the front. In a gilt-metal frame of circa 1700 engraved on the back with the monogram of James Sotheby.

• Medium: watercolour on vellum (?)
• Dimensions: 5 x 5 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £500 ( Total: £2,400; Export stopped)
• ArtFunded in: 1957
• Vendor: Sotheby's

Provenance

Parry Walton, James Sotheby, by descent in the Sotheby family; Sotheby's 1955.

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