Van der Doort c.1639

Woman's Head, excellent[?] piece, in the Cabinet of Bellini, which was wholly rent and peeled off in a manner as if I never thought it to have been possible to mend it, 4 pounds

Walpole Society reference (1960): 
WS 191, № 2
Location: 
In conservation
Room description extended: 
All the pictures that are mended of late that were extremely spoiled and peeled off from the panel and were eaten and rotten so that of some were left just the panel was most all to be taken away as your majesty knows
Original Manuscript page number: 
MS. Ash. 1514, f. 193
Identification certainty: 
Unknown