An Unknown Child
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1650 - 1696
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
349 x 298 mm (13 3/4 x 11 3/4 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 435951
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, An Unknown Child, British (English) School, previously attributed to Jacob Huysmans (Antwerp c.1630 – London 1696). A painted sculptured oval half-length, portrait, facing, dressed in a white shirt draped over his left shoulder with a blue mantle on his left arm.
Provenance
Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) from Edward John Peregrine Cust, 7th Baron Brownlow, C. St J. (b.1936) in 1984
Credit line
Belton House, The Brownlow Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund by the National Trust in 1984)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist previously catalogued as attributed to Jacob Huysmans (Antwerp c.1630 – London 1696), artist