Van der Doort c.1639
WS 85, № 45
Lucas Cranach
Hans von Griffendorf, private German gentleman in a black cap and golden chain upon which his name appears, painted on a green ground
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
4½in x 4½in (11.3 x 11.3cm)
Light:
light from the right
Frame:
round turned black and gilded frame
Provenance:
(brought from Germany "by Sir Robert Anstruther") [text in inverted commas struck through]
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
Gift?
Hang notes:
under the above [no. 44]
Location:
Room description extended:
By your majesty's especially command your pictures and rarities which you had kept at St James's in the Cabinet Room were transported and brought to Whitehall into the Privy Gallery in your Majesty's newly-erected Cabinet Room, whereof the particulars as well of the said rarities from St James's as also other Pictures medals agates or the like since by Your Majesty thereunto augmented, as by the number and bigness particularly signified doth appear as followeth
Original Manuscript page number:
Windsor MS., f. 13 and MS. Ash. 1514, f. 107
Interpreting the text:
Text in brackets comes from the Ashmolean MS.
Identification certainty:
Unknown
Sale Inventory c.1649-51