Portrait Miniatures: Tiny Windows to the Past · Unknown boy, perhaps Sir Frederick Augustus D'Este (1794-1848)

Unknown boy, perhaps Sir Frederick Augustus D'Este (1794-1848)

Title: Unknown boy, perhaps Sir Frederick Augustus D'Este (1794-1848)
Creator: Cosway, R.; Cosway, Richard, 1740-1821; Richard Cosway
Date: 1799
Description: Portrait miniature of an unknown boy, perhaps Sir Frederick Augustus D'Este, dated 1799, painted on ivory by Richard Cosway (1742-1821). Portrait of a boy with his sleeves pushed up and his arms crossed, standing against a sky background. He is dressed in a so-called "skeleton suit".
Subject: miniatures (paintings); Childhood and youth; skeleton suit
has style period: Georgian (British Renaissance-Baroque style)
Medium: watercolor (paint); ivory (material)
height: 89 mm
width: 68 mm
Coverage: England
Provenance: Given by Mrs Emma Joseph
Rights: Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Identifier: P.7-1941