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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2001.169
People
Master of the 1540s, Netherlandish
Previously attributed to Jan van Scorel, Netherlandish (1495 - 1562)
Title
Portrait of a Man
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1541
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231778

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on oak panel
Dimensions
40 x 35 cm (15 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.)
frame: 54 x 48.6 cm (21 1/4 x 19 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: 1541, upper edge, paint: [u.l.:] ANNO 1541; [u.r.:] SVAE AETATIS [ ]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Probably Richard Payne Knight (1751-1824), Downton Castle, Herefordshire, probably by decent; to his brother, Thomas Andrew Knight (1759-1838), Downton Castle, Herefordshire, 1824, probably by decent; to his daughter, Charlotte Rouse-Boughton-Knight (c. 1801-1843), Downton Castle, Herefordshire, 1838, probably by decent; to her second son, Andrew Johnes Rouse-Boughton-Knight (1826-1909), Downton Castle, Herefordshire, 1843, probably by decent; to his son Charles Andrew Rouse-Boughton-Knight, Downton Castle, Hereforshire, by descent; to Major William Mandeville Peareth Kincaid-Lennox, his nephew, Downton Castle, Hereforshire, sold [through Sotheby's, London, June 27, 1962, lot 6, as by Jan van Scorel]; to [Galerie Cramer, The Hague]. [Christie's, New York, May 21,1992, lot 49], sold; to [Vermeer Associates Limtied, New York], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2001

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Special Purchase Fund in honor of Ron Spronk
Accession Year
2001
Object Number
2001.169
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Max J. Friedlander, Die altniederlandische Malerei, Paul Cassirer Gallery (Berlin, Germany, 1924 - 1937), vol. XIII, p. 162, no. 242
  • Solomon Charles Kaines Smith, Commemorative Exhibition of the art treasures of the Midlands, exh. cat., Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery (Birmingham England, 1934), no. 151
  • "Notable Works of Art Now on the Market: Supplement", The Burlington Magazine (December 1962), vol. 104, no. 717 [n.p.], pl. VI [text unpaginated, following p. 568]
  • Max J. Friedlander, Antonis Mor and his Contemporaries, A.W. Sijthoff (Leyden, 1975), no. 242, p. 93, repr. as pl. 122
  • Ron Spronk, "More than Meets the Eye: An Introduction to Technical Examination of Early Netherlandish Paintings at the Fogg Art Museum", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (1996), vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 13-18, 30-32, 44-45
  • Ron Spronk, "A ‘Portrait of a Man’ by the Master of the 1540s", Album Discipulorum: J.R.J. van Asperen de Boer, Waanders Uitgevers (Zwolle, 1997), pp. 197-202, pp. 197-202
  • J. S. Arney and Laura Arney, "Imaging Science in Art Conservation", ed. Joseph Hornak, J. Wiley (New York, NY, 2002), p. 671, technical photos repr. as figs. 15A, B, C, and D
  • Peter Klein, "Dendrochronological Analyses of Netherlandish Paintings", Recent Developments in the Technical Examination of Early Netherlandish Painting, ed. Molly Faries, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge MA, 2003), pp. 65-81, p. 80, in table 5
  • Stewart Laidler, "Portrait of a young woman by the Master of the 1540s: A study using infrared reflectography and X-radiography", Melbourne Journal of Technical Studies in Art (Melbourne, 2005), Vol. 2, pp. 69-76, pp. 70, 75 fig. 4 and 5, 76 fig. 7, 75 fig. 8
  • Peter van den Brink, "On Art and Connoisseurship: Max Friedlander, the Master of the 1540s and his Female Portrait in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum", Wallraf-Richartz Jahrbuch (2023), Vol. 84, pp. 39-68, pp. 49, 51, 52, 66 no. 53, 66 no. 60, 67 no. 71
  • Peter van den Brink, "Metamorphosis. A Portrait of a man holding gloves by the Master of the 1540s", Bulletin de l'Institute royual du Patrimoine artistique (2024), Vol. 39, pp. 20, 31, 41, 49 no. 37 and 39, 50 no. 51, 52 no. 75. fig. 27

Exhibition History

  • Commemorative exhibition of the art treasures of the Midlands, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, 11/06/1934 - 12/06/1934
  • Investigating the Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/01/1996 - 05/01/2009

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