id:			119030
accession number:	1940.1215
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.1215
updated:		2024-03-26 01:57:39.840000

Portrait of Samuel Butler, c. 1715–20. Bernard Lens (British, 1681–1740). Watercolor on ivory in a period metal frame; framed: 4.5 x 3.7 cm (1 3/4 x 1 7/16 in.); sight: 4.5 x 3.5 cm (1 3/4 x 1 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Edward B. Greene Collection 1940.1215

title:				Portrait of Samuel Butler
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creation date:			c. 1715–20
creation date earliest:		1715
creation date latest:		1720
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creditline:			The Edward B. Greene Collection
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culture:	England, early 18th century
technique:	watercolor on ivory in a period metal frame
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - British before 1800
type:		Portrait Miniature
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CREATORS

* Bernard Lens (British, 1681–1740)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 4.5 x 3.7 cm (1 3/4 x 1 7/16 in.); Sight: 4.5 x 3.5 cm (1 3/4 x 1 3/8 in.)
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	inscription:	signed right:  BL [in monogram]
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America
	opening date:   1993-03-26T04:00:00
	<i>Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-October 17, 1993).

	title:		Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives
	opening date:   2013-11-10T00:00:00
	<i>Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 10, 2013-February 16, 2014).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Main Gallery Rotation (Gallery 202), </em>The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 20, 2008 - September 22, 2008).', 'opening_date': '2008-06-20T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Special Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures on Loan, </em>South Kensington Museum, London, England (1865).', 'opening_date': None}

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PROVENANCE

	John Webb (d. 1880), London, England and Cannes, France, by inheritance to his daughter Edith Cragg
	date: Before 1880-1880
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	Edith Cragg (née Webb, d. 1925), Wrotham Place, Kent, England and Cannes, France
	date: 1880-1925
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	(Sale: Christie's London, June 24,1925, Lot 143).
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	(S. J. Phillips, London, England).
	date: 1930
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	Edward B. Greene (1878-1957), Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art [as "Samuel Butler by Peter Lely"].
	date: 1930-1940
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1940-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	South Kensington Museum, and Howard Coppuck Levis<em>. Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures on Loan at the South Kensington Museum, June, 1865.</em> London: Printed by Whittingham and Wilkins, 1865.
	page number: 	p. 23
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	Christie, Manson &amp; Woods.<em> Catalogue of Old French &amp; English Furniture, Objects of Art and Porcelain.</em> London: Christy, Manson, and Woods International, 1925.
	page number: 	lot 143
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	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Portrait Miniatures; The Edward B. Greene Collection.</em> Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 28, no. 22; reproduced: pl. V, no. 22
	url:		https://archive.org/details/PortraitMiniatures/page/n51

	Korkow, Cory, and Dario Robleto. <em>Disembodied: Portrait Miniatures and Their Contemporary Relatives</em>. 2013.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p.84
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	Korkow, Cory, and Jon L. Seydl.<em> British Portrait Miniatures: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>2013.
	page number: 	Cat. no. 21, pp. 112-115
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IMAGES

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