An Unknown Boy
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1630 - 1669
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1220 x 700 mm
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436134
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, An Unknown Boy, British (English) School, mid-17th century. A cut-down full-length portrait of a young boy, seated in a white shirt and blue robe and feeding cherries to a parrot. This might be the otherwise untraced picture of Sir John Brownlow recorded in an inventory in the Best Wrought Bedroom (1754).
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