Current knowledge
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Lorenzo Lotto
A Goldsmith in Three Views
Current measurements:
52cm x 79cm
Date:
c.1530
Lorenzo Lotto’s unforgettable portrait of a goldsmith in three positions was recorded as a Titian by Van der Doort. It was clearly much admired, providing the inspiration for one of the major artistic commissions of the reign: Van Dyck’s portrait of Charles I in three positions, which was sent to the sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini in Rome as a model from which to make a marble bust of the King. This bust, now lost, appears in Greenwich Palace in the Sale inventory.
Van der Doort 1639
Titian
Another picture with 3 Heads, one full-faced and two profile, all 3 holding a box with rings, all 3 [rings] done by one jeweler
Sale Inventory c.1649-51
Walpole Society reference (1972):