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Mary Lucas
1636
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
119.0 × 99.2 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1934
Gallery location
17th Century & Flemish Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
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.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Inscription
inscribed in brown paint l.l.: A : Hanneman / (…illeg.) 1636
Accession Number
217-4
Department
International Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Subjects (general)
Portraits
Subjects (specific)
dresses (garments) pearl (animal material) sashes (costume accessories) silk (textile) three-quarter-length figures women (female humans)