A Young Prince with a Gun
Spanish School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1600
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1029 x 775 mm (40 1/2 x 30 1/2 in)
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 608997
Caption
This unknown princely youth wears the red cross of the Order of Santiago on his doublet, but the painting look North Italian (Spain at that time ruled the Duchy of Milan). ”
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Young Prince with a Gun, Spanish School, circa 1600. A three-quarter-length portrait of a youth, in a landscape, turned to left. He is wearing an embroidered black and gold doublet, with the red cross of the Order of Santiago on his doublet, ruff and peaked cap, carries a gun over his left shoulder and rests his hand on the head of a dog.
Provenance
Attingham collection. 1847 Catalogue of Paintings, p.22; 1861 Inventory p.228; 1913 Inventory p.65; bequeathed to the National Trust with the estate, house and contents of Attingham by Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Baron Berwick (1877-1947) on 15th May 1953.
Credit line
Attingham Park, The Berwick Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
On frame: 61 On stretcher (top): 3 On stretcher (middle vertical): Red wax seal reset on modern stretcher: Berwick arms On stretcher (bottom): ATT/P/061 On reverse of frame (top): 3 On reverse of frame (bottom): ATT/P/061
Makers and roles
Spanish School, artist previously catalogued as school of Diego Velázquez (Seville 1599 - Madrid 1660), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Italian (North Italian) School, artist