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The Coral Necklace

Frederick SandysLinkedCulture matchlcp-7f1ad9bcad94

Date: 1871
Medium: black, brown, and red chalk
Culture: England, 19th century
Department: Drawings
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 160105

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Closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Frederick Sandys was a friend of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and played an active role in the bohemian artistic, literary, and theatrical circles of the day in London. This is a portrait of Mary Emma Jones, the artist’s favorite model, mistress, and mother of his nine children. An extraordinarily skilled draftsman, here he worked in tone rather than line, delicately drawing in chalk on a rough textured sheet and leaving the low points of the paper untouched to produce a stippled, hazy effect. Frederick Sandys and his mistress, Mary Emma Jones, the sitter for this portrait, adopted the names "Mr. and Mrs. Neville" to mask the unconventional nature of their relationship.

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Credit line: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
Provenance: ?-1927: J. Beecroft, Esq., Bradford, England | 1927: (his sale, Christie's, London, February 21, 1927, no. 68) | after 1927-1964: Dr. J. N. Nicoll | 1964: (his sale, Sotheby's, London, October 29, 1964, no. 225) | after 1964-before 1966: C. Powney, Esq. | 1966: (Sotheby's, London, December 21, 1966, no. 305) | after 1966-before 1992: Anthony C. W. Crane | 1992: (his sale, Sotheby's, London, November 12, 1992, no. 157) | after 1992-before 1997: Hartnoll | after 1992-1997: (Kate Ganz Ltd., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) | 1997-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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English Portrait Miniatures
A collection of portrait miniatures from 17th-18th century England, predominantly featuring watercolor on ivory or graphite and wash techniques, representing the tradition of intimate personal portraiture in miniature fo
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