Mitchell, J. S. (McKechnie Section 6)

See Section One for main entry

Although, on his trade labels, Mitchell does not specify work in colour, the 'Likenesses in Bronze Tints, etc.' which he offered apparently included profile miniatures in colour on card. The illustrated example (c. 1818-20) is of a man wearing a dark-blue coat and a double-breasted striped waistcoat of a slightly paler blue. The sitter's face is well painted and his hair is shown with fine brush-strokes; the flesh tints are subtle and the features well indicated. The background is unusual; it is stippled, on the lower half of the portrait, almost entirely in strokes of yellow and green, a very little grey being included.

Ill. 1553