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Mary Lucas
1636
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 119.0 × 99.2 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- London, England
- Inscription
- inscribed in brown paint l.l.: A : Hanneman / (…illeg.) 1636
- Accession Number
- 217-4
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1934
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- 17th Century & Flemish Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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Adriaen Hanneman was a Dutch Golden Age painter best known today for his portraits of the Stuart court in exile, but prior to this Hanneman worked in England for sixteen years from 1623, where he knew Anthony van Dyck and Daniel Mytens. A painter of female sitters in flattering light, Hanneman captured rustling expanses of silk well, but skin even better, as can be seen in the radiant hands and face of the present sitter. Mary Lucas (born in c. 1600) was a member of a famous Royalist family. During the Civil War it is said that Parliamentarians broke into the family vault at the church vault of St Giles, Colchester, and desecrated her remains.
- Subjects (general)
- Portraits
- Subjects (specific)
- dresses (garments) pearl (animal material) sashes (costume accessories) silk (textile) three-quarter-length figures women (female humans)
