A Bearded Man with a Blue Flower
German School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1500 - 1599
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
345 x 255 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486810
Summary
Oil painting on panel, A Bearded Man with a Blue Flower, German School, 16th century. A three-quarter-length portrait of an unknown man, wearing a black dress, linen ruffles with black stitched hem and black flat cap with a gold cord and cylindrical aglets. In his right hand he wears one ring and holds a sprig of a gentiana verna, on his left hand are two rings.
Provenance
First mentioned at Petworth c.1850. 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
German School, artist