An Unknown Man
manner of John Closterman (Osnabrück 1660 - London 1711)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1600 - 1729
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
762 x 635 mm (30 x 25 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Fenton House, London
NT 1449083
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, An Unknown Man, manner of John Closterman (Osnabrück 1660 – London 1711) [previously: in the style of Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680)], 17th to early 18th century. Oval. A three-quarter-length portrait of a man in a full-bottom wig, with a white cravat and blue drapery over his left shoulder.
Provenance
Major George Henry Benton Fletcher (1866-1944) , Old Devonshire House, Bloomsbury, London (given by him to National Trust in 1937; house perished in an air raid);
Credit line
Fenton House, The Benton Fletcher Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
manner of John Closterman (Osnabrück 1660 - London 1711), artist previously catalogued as style of Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680), artist