Portrait of a Young Man

Portrait of a Young ManThis miniature, on ivory, was probably painted in the 1820s. The head of this anonymous sitter appears well finished, the remainder very slipshod; the background and coat seem to have been repainted, possibly because of damage cause by moulding. The former attribution to Beechey is impossible, while the sitter, who appears to be under twenty years old, cannot be Bourgeois as a label on the back states.

partly on his Capodimonte "Pietà"

jade green - provide the chromatic structure of the painting

In the 1650s this second theme began to predominate in his oeuvre

around 1627 Van Ostade was a pupil of Frans Hals

step daughter of the theatrical manager Philip Henslowe

Therefore there is no reason to assume that Nason was ever in England

A simplified version of Van Cleve's original in the Louvre

The altarpiece was painted for Antonio and Girolamo Petrobelli for their chapel in the church of San Francesco at Lendinara near Rovigo

A copy is in the Pinacoteca

the attribution to Lefebvre was proposed by Boyer

Anyway there is (or was) a printed label on the back

In 1644 he became Painter to the King of France