Van der Doort c.1639
WS 90, № 73
(Middle-aged) Gentleman, black cap in the right of his head, grey rabbit-skin furred gown, pair of gloves in left hand, right hand on a red table
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
10½in x 8in (26.7 x 20.3cm)
Light:
light from the left
Frame:
wooden frame
Provenance:
Mantua piece
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
bought
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. 19 and V&A MS, f. 38, no 78 (WS 211)
Charles II inventory c1666:
Whitehall, no. 346, 23 x 18
Interpreting the text:
The text in brackets comes from the V&A Manuscript
Identification certainty:
Identified
Sale Inventory c.1649-51