An Unknown Man with a Letter
Italian (Venetian) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1500 - 1599
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1090 x 790 mm
Place of origin
Veneto
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486262
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, An Unknown Man with a Letter, Italian (Venetian) School, 16th century. A half-length portrait of an unknown man with a letter in his left hand. He is shown three-quarters right and wearing a fur stole, black robe and has a short brown beard above a small ruff.
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
Italian (Venetian) School , artist