The Property of a Gentleman
Burgundian School, possibly Brussels, late 15th century
Portrait of a young man holding a ring
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The Property of a Gentleman
Burgundian School, possibly Brussels, late 15th century
Portrait of a young man holding a ring
oil on paper laid on oak ♛panel, the engaged frame blazoned with an unidentified coat of arms of a dove above three entwined roses
unframed: 21.4 x 14.1 cm.; 8½ x 5½ in.
framed: 31.1 x 24.1 cm.; 12¼ x 9½ in.
indistinctly inscribed on an old label affixed to the reverse: ‘By Quintin Matsys / A ... said / connubialis ... de / Muliebre ... Apellem’1
Possibly acquired by John Clerk, 1st Laird of Penicuik (1611–1🐼674), near Edinburgh;
By descentꦬ to Sir Robert Clerk (1722–1814), Mavisbank House, Midlothian;
By inheritance to his nephew and major beneficiary James C💝heape of Strathtyrum (1746–1824), Stratht🔥yrum House, Fife;
Thence by descent.
C. Périer-D'Ieteren, ‘Un portrait peint à l’huile sur papier marouflé à attribuer au Maître des Portraits Princiers’, in Annales d’Histoire de l’Art et d’Archéologie, XXVII, 2015, pp. 7–31, reproduced;
M.W. Ainsworth, 2018, accessed 21 May 2024: //www🔜.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/440840.
Edinburgh, National Gall𒆙eries of S🐎cotland, September 1989;
On loan, Oxford, Ashmolean 🤪Museum, 3 September 2014 – 9 April 2024 (a𝔉s ‘attributed to the Master of the Princely Portraits’).