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Description: | The unknown sitter in this bust-length portrait is represented against a dark background, with an inscription above. Although the inscribed 1504 date is spurious, the Italian name 'Giacomo Natta' could refer to a member of the Italian community in Flanders. Italian merchants enjoyed great prosperity and prestige in seventeenth-century Flanders. The sitter's white collar edged with lace suggests that the portrait was actually painted between 1640 and 1660. The influence of the type of male portrait which was popularised by Anthony Van Dyck and his followers is noticeable here in the restrained elegance with which the costume and the hand are depicted. | Subjects: | portrait | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Flemish School Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to Italian School | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8997... | Go to resource |
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