An Unknown Man with a Red Beard
Flemish School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1600 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
510 x 400 mm
Place of origin
Flanders (Belgium from 1830)
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486203
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, An Unknown Man with a Red Beard, Flemish School, 17th century. A three-quarter-length portrait of a man, with brown hair and a red beard and wearing a dark brown tunic with a silver stripe and a white collar and black mantle.
Provenance
In the collection of the 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) by 1835. Thence by descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.
Credit line
Petworth House, The Egremont Collection (acquired in lieu of tax by HM Treasury in 1956 and subsequently transferred to the National Trust)
Makers and roles
Flemish School, artist