The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of July 4, 2022

Portrait of Elizabeth Morrison, Lady Capell of Hadham

c. 1650

Richard Gibson

(British, c. 1615-1690)

England, 17th century

Watercolor on vellum in a silver gilt frame

Framed: 8.5 x 6.7 cm (3 3/8 x 2 5/8 in.); Unframed: 8 x 6.3 cm (3 1/8 x 2 1/2 in.)

The Edward B. Greene Collection 1941.555

Location

not on view

Citations
Cleveland Museum of Art. Portrait Miniatures; The Edward B. Greene Collection. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951. Mentioned: p. 34, no. 58; reproduced: pl. XXVII archive.org
Comstack, Helen. "The Edward B. Greene Collection of Miniatures." The Connoisseur 128, no. 532 (October 1951): 137-144. Mentioned: p. 140
Geneva (Switzerland). Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache. Genèva: Le Musée, 1956. Mentioned: cat. no. 131
Korkow, Cory, and Dario Robleto. Disembodied: Portrait Miniatures and Their Contemporary Relatives. 2013. Mentioned: p.85
Korkow, Cory, and Jon L. Seydl. British Portrait Miniatures: The Cleveland Museum of Art. 2013. Cat. no. 14, pp. 83-86
Exhibition history

Lond, p. 172: Lady Capell in widow’s weeds, exhibited 1865 by Lord Wharncliffe. [?]

Main Gallery Rotation (Gallery 202):September 22, 2008 - January 5, 2009.

Four Centuries of Miniature Painting. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (January 18-March 19, 1950).

Chefs d’Oeuvre de la Miniature et de la Gouache. Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, Switzerland (organizer) (June 15-August 15, 1956).

Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-October 17, 1993).

Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 10, 2013-February 16, 2014).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1941.555