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Description: | The unidentified sitter in this portrait wears understated clothes made of fine fabric that may suggest he was a Protestant merchant. The skull and hourglass included in the work remind the viewer that the sands of time are running out, that life is transient. This is interesting in the context of a portrait, probably commissioned by the sitter, as the man's painted image will last far longer than his flesh and blood. | Subjects: | portrait | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Geeraerts, Marcus, the younger (Flemish painter, 1561-1635, active in England) Æ Attributed to manner of | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8420... | Go to resource |
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