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North Italian School, 16th Century
Portrait of a man, three-quarter-length, in a dark blue doublet with slashed sleeves, holding a spear and a sword, with a helmet beside him.
Sold for £15,000Quite cheap, really…
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Dott: portrait of her husband, Peter McOmish Dott, art dealer and critic.
Full credit:
Peter McOmish Dott (1856–1934), Art Dealer and Critic by Jean Morton Dott.
Always have a thing for Scots and celtic men…and a portrait is only meaningful if there is a connection between sitter and artist, be they photographs or paintings. The connection comes out in the pose, the response. Too much ‘fashion’ style portraiture with empty meaning, no connection, no soul, no truth out there.
Here you can feel the connection between wife and husband, even the uncomfortable nature of shift of power or position temporarily, even the quizzical nature of his look, like ‘why are we doing this?’ – very much a dynamic of long term partners. It’s very telling…
Also I think he’s taken his glasses off, hence the squinting (might not be quizzical then?). Very vain 😉
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Artist Augustus John onboard a ship, Library of Congress.
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Tintoretto , Self-Portrait
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Covey: portrait of an elderly gentleman.
from here.
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Holbein: portrait of Sir Thomas Strange (detail), and
portrait of Sir Thomas Wyatt.
I have such an artistic hard-on for Holbein it’s not true. Always and inspiration. Shame the original of this portrait did not survive – but a surprisingly amount of sketches for those lost paintings did…
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Attributed to Paolo Caliari Veronese, Mid-1570s (?): Portrait of a Gentleman
Private Collection
Not totally sure of this attribution, it’s Veronese-esque but not like the other portraits I’ve seen, seems a bit too modern (rare to have a completely blank background in a Veronese too).
But still, an amazing portrait.
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Veronese – Portrait of a Man in Furs 1550 – 1560
Loved this at the National Gallery (only on til the 15th so get down there now!).
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Starting again
As you might have seen I’m now posting again here. Not sure this is going to be a regular thing, it always seems like work to keep ‘queuing’ up stuff.
But we’ll see.
On a side note, strange to see that from years past beards were a fringe sport, Tumblr is now full of young hipster beard fashion images. Hmm. :-/
Some of us having been rocking a long beard since before you were born!
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Pronaszko: portrait of the sculptor Leopold Wasilkowski (Portrait of an Architect).