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Portrait of Anna Maria, Countess of Shrewsbury
Artist: Willem Wissing (ca. 1656 - 1687) Primary
Date:
ca. 1687
17th century
Dimensions:
48 x 38 in. (121.92 x 96.52 cm)
Dimensions Extent:
frame opening
Object Type:
Painting
Creation Place:
Europe, England
Medium and Support:
Oil on canvas
Credit Line:
Found in collection
Accession Number:
2016.28.01
On View:
Bellarmine Hall Lower Level Hallway
One of England’s most sought-after portraitists, the Dutch painter Willem Wissing frequently re-used variants of the same poses for his sitters. The pose of this woman – who may be Anna Maria Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury and a famous beauty – is similar to a number of the artist’s other female portraits, including the Portrait of a Woman in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The two sitters appear, in fact, to be wearing the same elegant garment (albeit in different colors), which may signal the contribution of Jan van der Vaart, a drapery painter who often worked with Wissing.
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seventeenth century
Century in the proleptic Gregorian calendar including the years 1600 to 1699 (or 1601 to 1700).
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portraits
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