A Man, perhaps Sir John Wildman
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Object Type
The term 'miniature' describes the watercolour technique in which this portrait has been painted, rather than the size of the painting. Unusually this miniature is still in a 17th-century blue enamelled gold locket; many such miniatures have lost their original frames.
People
This miniature closely resembles the subject of an etching from 1653 by the Bohemian Wenceslaus Hollar, which is said to depict Sir John Wildman. Wildman was notorious as one of those involved in trying and condemning to death Charles I. However, the Hollar print was not described as showing Wildman until almost 100 years after Wildman's death. No other portraits of Wildman are known, so the description must remain doubtful.
Attribution
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This miniature is signed 'IH' for John Hoskins. We know that John Hoskins had too much work for one hand and that his son, John Hoskins the Younger, worked in his studio. But confusingly all works from the Hoskins studio were signed 'IH'. This miniature has been attributed to Hoskins the Younger because it is like others in a group of miniatures apparently by one hand. The heart of this group is a miniature signed Ipse ('himself'), which is probably a self-portrait by Hoskins the Younger. Thus the whole group is believed to be by this artist.
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- P.2-1962
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- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Immagine: Victoria and Albert Museum — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
