An Unknown Gentleman
after Gilbert Soest (Soest c.1605 – London 1681)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1630 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
480 x 390 mm
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Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436107
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, An Unknown Gentleman, after Gerard Soest (Soest c.1600 – London 1681). A half-length portrait of a man, turned to the right, gazing at the spectator, with shoulder-length natural hair wearing black dress with a white collar.
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
after Gilbert Soest (Soest c.1605 – London 1681), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Frans Hals (Antwerp c.1581 - Haarlem 1666), artist