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Description: | This portrait is clearly meant to celebrate the sitter's wealth and position as well as to provide a record of his appearance. The sitter is well dressed in a blue coat with a tasselled fastening, with a paisley shawl drawn around his waist and a red and brown cloak around his shoulders. An especially interesting part of the portrait is the background: to the sitter's left, in the distance, the artist has shown a battle scene, which suggests that the sitter had a military background and had experienced war. It is traditionally thought to be by John Closterman, a German artist who worked in England and who became well known there, but a firm attribution has yet to be made. | Subjects: | portrait | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Closterman, John Baptist (German painter, active ca. 1690-1713 in England) Æ Attributed to manner of | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8721... | Go to resource |
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