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Total number of records: 36

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Archives33
Art items2
Objects1

Count of Collection group

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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection21
Brotherton Collection20
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive15

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
portraits36
exhibitions12
painting9
print media9
photographs8
family6
academies and institutes5
letter writing5
photography5
gift giving3

Count of Place

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London, United Kingdom36
Berlin (Germany)3
Leeds, United Kingdom2
Florence, Italy1
Genoa, Italy1
Rome, Italy1
Vienna, Austria1

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Gifford, Edward1
Novello, Clara1

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From 180018
From 190018

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Up to 189917
Up to 199919

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Portraits of

1847-1904

Portraits of (Mary) Sabilla Novello as an adult, in print, photography and watercolour. The majority of the material is in the form of photographs and cartes de visite of her in the costumes of charac...

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Contempory Portrait Society's Seventh Exhibition

c. 1972

Copy of an undated typewritten press release for the Contempory Portrait Society's Seventh Exhibition, titled 'Portraits and Pictures'; their first in their new permanent home at the Upper Grosvenor G...

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Portraits of

1838-1840

Four printed portraits of Clara Anastasia Novello published between 1838 and 1840, around the time of her opera studies in Milan in 1838 and before her marriage to Giovanni Battista Gigliucci in 1843.

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The Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition

1962

Two copies of the printed catalogue for 'The Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition, 1962', in which Maurice de Sausmarez exhibited 'Morning Still Life' (No. 294), 'Jane Boswell' (No. 537) and 'La Canigou' ...

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Peter George Greenham to Maurice de Sausmarez

c. 1957-1965

Two undated handwritten letters from the artist Peter George Greenham to Maurice de Sausmarez. The first, likely to date from around 1957, concerns the final stages and framing of Greenham's portrait ...

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Gerald Festus Kelly to Maurice de Sausmarez

17 Mar 1952

Two typewritten and handwritten letters from Gerald Festus Kelly, President of the Royal Academy of Arts, to Maurice de Sausmarez, concerning a portrait commission of the barrister and politician Sir ...

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Archive Art Item

Portrait mounted on board

c. 1843

A print of a portrait by G.T. Payne after H. Winterhalter, published by S. Hollyer of 89 Chancery Lane, London. The sitter has dark curly hair and holds a flower in their proper right hand. Mounted on...

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Miniature portrait of a young Charles Cowden Clarke

c. 1810

Miniature glazed and framed portrait of a young Charles Cowden Clarke. Undated and by an unknown artist. The portrait appears to have been painted in tempera. The frame is rectangular and painted blac...

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Etching of Clara Anastasia Novello by William Humphreys

c. 1840

Etching of Clara Anastasia Novello by William Humphreys. The portrait is in the form of an oval and represents the head, torso and proper right hand of the sitter. She has a flower at her left ear and...

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Lithograph of (Mary) Sabilla Novello

1847

Lithograph of (Mary) Sabilla Novello by Lowes Cato Dickinson, printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel and published by Dickinson & Son, 114 New Bond Street and J.A. [Joseph Alfred] Novello of 69 Dean Str...

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BC MS NCC/9/4/1 Proof engraving of Vincent Novello
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Proof engraving of Vincent Novello

c. 1840

Proof engraving on paper of a portrait of Vincent Novello, engraved by the Irish artist William Humphrys after an original painting by Edward Petre Novello, now in the collection of the National Portr...

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David [Piper?] to Maurice de Sausmarez

27 Nov 1959

Typewritten letter from David [Piper?] of the National Portrait Gallery to Maurice de Sausmarez, thanking de Sausmarez for his letter and noting that they expect the portrait on 2 December, with a han...

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