Van der Doort c.1639
WS 79, № 18
Cornelis Visscher
Scholar, without a beard in a black habit and black cap, looking downwards at a letter he holds in both his hands, profile, less-than-life-size
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
1ft 7in x 1ft 5¼in (48.3 x 43.8cm)
Light:
light from the left
Provenance:
Your majesty's sister [Elizabeth of Bohemia] by means of Sir Henry Vane, Lord Ambassador to King of Sweden
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
gift
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. 6
Charles II inventory c1666:
Whitehall, no. 302, 48 x 43
Identification certainty:
Identified