Portrait of a Man (c. 1610): Art, History and Details

Portrait of a Man (c. 1610) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The style of the costume indicates that this portrait probably depicts an Englishman, painted in England, most likely by an artist from the Netherlands. Details of the clothing and the hilt of the sword suggest the picture was painted between 1610 and 1615.

Object facts

• Title: Portrait of a Man
• Date: c. 1610
• Culture: England (Anglo-Dutch), 17th century
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: Framed: 142.5 x 120.5 x 6.5 cm (56 1/8 x 47 7/16 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 123.2 x 99.8 cm (48 1/2 x 39 5/16 in.)
• Collection: P - British before 1800
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1946.161

Collection credit

Gift of Samuel D. Wise

Further reading listed by the museum

• Siebeck, Berta. Das Bild Sir Philip Sidneys in der englischen Renaissance. Weimar: H. Boehlaus Nachf, 1939.
• Christie, Manson & Woods. Important Early English Portraits. 1925.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.

View the collection record

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