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Portrait of a Man

Portrait of a Man

c. 1610
(Anglo-Dutch)
oil on canvas
Framed: 142.5 x 120.5 x 6.5 cm (56 1/8 x 47 7/16 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 123.2 x 99.8 cm (48 1/2 x 39 5/16 in.)
Gift of Samuel D. Wise 1946.161
Location: not on view

Description

The style of the costume indicates that this portrait probably depicts an Englishman, painted in England, most likely by an artist from the Netherlands. Details of the clothing and the hilt of the sword suggest the picture was painted between 1610 and 1615.
  • Viscount Ednam
    July 17, 1925
    (Sale: Christie’s, London, July 17, 1925, no. 63)
    -1946
    Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Wise, Cleveland, Oh, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1946-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Siebeck, Berta. Das Bild Sir Philip Sidneys in der englischen Renaissance. Weimar: H. Boehlaus Nachf, 1939. p. 169, no. VII
    Christie, Manson & Woods. Important Early English Portraits. 1925. no. 63
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 468 archive.org
    Judson, Alexander Corbin. Sidney's Appearance; A Study in Elizabethan Portraiture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1958. pp. 72-86
    Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and Detroit Institute of Arts. The World of Shakespeare, 1564-1616: An Exhibition Organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Detroit Institute of Arts to Commemorate the Fourth Centenary of the Birth of William Shakespeare. Richmond, Va: The Museum, 1964. cat. no. 22, illus. p. 29
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 127 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 127 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Reproduced: p. 216; Mentioned: p. 217
    Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. pp. 216-217, cat. no. 91, repr. p. 216
  • The World of Shakespeare. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA (organizer) (January 9-February 16, 1964).
    The World of Shakespeare, 1564-1616, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA (January 9-February 16, 1964).
    England's World of 1607, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA (May 17-September 1, 1957).
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