Count Girolamo Possenti de Fabriano (Italian), Florence; sale of Count Girolamo Possenti de Fabriano (Italian), Florence (April 1-10, 1880, no. 41); Rodolphe Hirsch Kann, Paris; Bligny, Paris; Georges Hoentschel (French); J
Paris, 1907. no. 18, p. 11. Pératé, André.
The Artist: Nicholas Hilliard, the son of Richard Hilliard, an Exeter goldsmith, made his earliest known miniatures in 1560. He served his apprenticeship as a goldsmith, beginning in 1562 with Robert Brandon, whose daughter Alice he was to marry in 1576
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Dimensions: (a): H. 8 1/4 in. (21 cm); W. 7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm); D. 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm) (b)
1840s, excavated under the direction of Austen Henry Layard; 1849, presented by Layard to Lady Charlotte Guest for Canford Manor, Dorsetshire (Dorset), England; 1919, purchased by Dikran Kelekian from Ivor Churchill Guest; 1927, purchased by J
London: Chatto and Windus, p. 127. Porada, Edith. 1945.
The Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 31 (11), p. 221.
The daughter of an army sergeant, Hendrickje Stoffels advanced in Rembrandt’s household from servant (by 1649) to mistress, presumed model, and common-law wife, as well as stepmother to the artist’s son Titus (1641–1668) and mother of his daughter Cornelia (1654–1685)
Stuttgart, 1904, p. 262, ill. p. 219. Wilhelm R. Valentiner.
References and Further Reading Bennett, Wendell C., and Junius B. Bird.
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Harmonica Pitch Pipe Hohner Viola d’Amore German 18th century ‘Gaillard’ Musette P.
[By 1964 and until 1973, with Herbert Cahn, Basel]; 1973, purchased by Rosemary and George Lois from Herbert Cahn; 1973-2010, collection of Rosemary and George Lois, New York; on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1973, 1992, and 1999; acquired in 2010, purchased from Rosemary and George Lois through Bobbie Entwistle of Entwistle London
Vase-Painters and to Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters [2nd edition]. no. 58 ter., p.
