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Description: | oil painting
A head and shoulders portrait of John Knox, the foremost leader of the Scottish Reformation. This is a very dark portrait in which it is difficult to discern his garments from the background. His head is turned slight away from the viewer so that his his face is seen in three-quarter view.
After the wood engraving in Theodore Beza's Icones, Geneva, 1580, taken from the portrait by Adrian Vanson sent by James VI to Geneva. The original portrait by Vanson is now lost. The wood engraving is often said to be the only authentic portrait of Knox. However, since 2003 it has been claimed that the portrait of Knox at Edinburgh University may be directly after the Vanson portrait, not the engraving. | Publisher: | University of St Andrews | Rights holder: | 47795 | Subjects: | PORTRAIT RELIGION REFORMATION PROTESTANT painting | Temporal: | 1580/1824 | Source: | University of St Andrews | Creator: | unknown, | Identifier: | HC197 | Language: | en-GB |
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