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Description: | This is a striking half-length portrait of a man, perhaps in his mid thirties. The sitter's long hair and high white collar suggest an early to mid-seventeenth-century date. The painting is believed to be the work of Gerard Soest, a Dutch portrait painter who worked in London. His subject, who gazes directly out at the viewer, is Christopher Thursby of Castor in Northamptonshire. The portrait now hangs in Abington Hall, a house near Northampton which was bought in 1669 by William Thursby, a London lawyer who was probably a relation of the sitter. | Subjects: | portrait (Thursby Christopher); figure; buildings and gardens | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Soest, Gerard (Dutch painter in England, ca.1600-1681) Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8539... | Go to resource |
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