Portrait miniature of Anne of Denmark
Isaac Oliver
- Art Funded
- 1957
- Dimensions
- 5 x 5 cm
- Vendor
- Sotheby's
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.
Provenance
Parry Walton, James Sotheby, by descent in the Sotheby family; Sotheby's 1955.