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Portrait of Agnes Thomson att Cornelius Johnson #867315

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Portrait of Agnes Thomson att Cornelius Johnson #867315
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Portrait of Agnes Thomson (died 1629), wife of John Toke (1559-1627), Attributed to Cornelius Johnson (1593-1661)


Agnes is seated half-length wearing a black dress with a white lace cuff and collar.

Cornelius Johnson is the most satisfying and "English" of the portrait painters working in England in the 1620s and 30s, and is certainly the best portrait painter of the generation before Van Dyck. His technique is splendid, and it is a tribute to the soundness of it that so many of his paintings survive in good condition. His style is restrained and introspective, and he gives loving attention to the details of the costume.

The large majority of his paintings are of head and shoulders size, though he occasionally painted, as here, on a scale of life. His admirably accurate portraits never flatter, and are sober and objective in their portrayal of his usual patrons: the gentry and nobility below the level of the courtiers. His style is easily identified by its coolness and restraint, and he has left us a substantial corpus of signed and dated work which enables us readily to chart his development as an artist.

Much of his work is to be found in family collections from the county of Kent, where he was living in the early 1630's. The present painting and its companion were formerly at Mereworth, Kent. Johnson also seems to have spent some time in Herefordshire, where there is another quite substantial corpus of his work. At the approach of the Civil War he obtained a passport to ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Overall good condition</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:C.1650</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:UK</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:Attributed to Cornelius Johnson</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:30.00</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:25.00</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Portrait of Agnes Thomson att Cornelius Johnson</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Traditional</td></tr>

<tr><td>Type:Oil on Canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:london uk</td></tr>
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