COLOUR STUDY

Colour palette

#1A1A18
#2B1E18
#3C291B
#242720
#8F8878
#4D4C40

Approximate colour proportions

#1A1A1827.6%
#2B1E1817.5%
#3C291B16.5%
#24272014.3%
#8F887812.2%
#4D4C4011.9%

Estimated from six colour groups in the museum image, including visible paper or borders. Reproduction and lighting affect the result; these are image-area proportions, not pigment measurements.

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Image licence: CC0 · Museum record & image source ↗

England, 19th century · 1862

Susanna Anderson Rose

Frederick Sandys

Date: 1862
Medium: oil on wood
Dimensions: Framed: 54 x 47 x 4.5 cm (21 1/4 x 18 1/2 x 1 3/4 in.); Unframed: 34.7 x 28 cm (13 11/16 x 11 in.)
Country / context: England
Movement / tradition: European and American art
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Attribution / role: Museum attribution
Pathway: European and American art ↗

FROM THE MUSEUM

This keenly perceptive portrait of Susanna Anderson Rose (1795–1870) was painted when the sitter was 67 years old. The fine network of lines on her face are meticulously observed as are her silver gray curls and pale blue eyes. Frederick Sandys’s ability to render detail is evident in the subject’s bonnet, elaborately trimmed with lace and azure ribbon, and the texture of her brown fur cloak.

Collection text · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0

Place in the artist’s career

The 1862 portrait describes an older sitter; Medea turns the figure toward myth and material richness; the 1871 chalk drawing uses black, brown and red to build another kind of presence. Compare skin, hair and accessories across oil and dry drawing materials. A narrow date span supports focused comparison, not a complete biography in pictures.