Portrait of an Unknown Man Aged 24 with a Skull
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About the work
- Location
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Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection
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Explore
- People
- unknown man
- Places
- Subjects
- male portrait, British School C16th, skull, man, 16th century costume, doublet, collar, memento mori
- Materials & Techniques
- panel, oil, oil painting
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Details
- Artist
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British 16th century unknown
- Title
- Portrait of an Unknown Man Aged 24 with a Skull
- Date
- 1569
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- height: 60.00 cm, width: 43.00 cm
- Acquisition
- Purchased from the British Museum, June 1946.
- Inscription
- tr: AETATIS SUAE 24. / ANo 1569
- Provenance
- Collection of Baptist minister, numismatist and assistant librarian in the British Museum Dr Andrew Gifford (1700-1784); by whom presented to British Museum in 1758; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in 1946
- GAC number
- 18