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Description: | This is a copy after Frans Hals' Portrait of a Man Holding a Skull (1611, Barber Institute, Birmingham). Although this painting has been referred to as Portrait of an Anatomist owing to the inclusion of the skull, such symbolic objects were often included in portraits as memento mori. The Barber Institute painting is paired with a portrait of a woman at Chatsworth in which the sitter holds a chain as a symbol of wealth. Such symbols appear in Hal's early portraits which still adhere to the moralising tone of late sixteenth-century, mannerist portraiture. | Subjects: | portrait | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Hals, Frans (Dutch painter, born ca. 1581, died 1666) Æ After | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8387... | Go to resource |
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