An Unknown Young Man
Italian (Venetian) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1600
Materials
Oil on copper
Measurements
162 x 124 x 10 mm
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Ham House, Surrey
NT 1139919
Summary
Oil painting on copper, An Unknown Young Man, Italian (Venetian) School, circa 1600. A painted oval head-and-shoulders portrait of a young man, turned to the right, gazing at the spectator, in black with falling white collar; brown eyes, close-cropped dark hair and small moustache.
Provenance
In 1683 valuation list and thence by descent until acquired in 1948 by HM Government when Sir Lyonel, 4th Bt (1854 – 1952) and Sir Cecil Tollemache, 5th Bt (1886 – 1969) presented Ham House to the National Trust, and entrusted to the care of the Victoria & Albert Museum, until 1990, when returned to the care of the National Trust, and to which ownership was transferred in 2002
Credit line
Ham House, The Dysart Collection (purchased by HM Government in 1948 and transferred to the National Trust in 2002)
Makers and roles
Italian (Venetian) School , artist previously catalogued as attributed to Jacopo Bassano (Bassano c.1510 – Venice 1592), artist
