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British School, 18th century
Portrait of a Man c.1715
Oil on canvas | 75.7 x 63.1 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 403983
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This portrait by an unknown artist of an unknown sitter should be dated by costume and style to c. 1715. The sitter is wearing a blue wrap, jabot and his hair to his shoulder underneath a wig.
Provenance
First recorded in the Dressing Closet at Kensington Palace in 1818 (no 588), without attribution; listed in the Closet next to George II's Private Chamber at Hampton Court in 1861 (no 835) as Riley of Christopher Wren
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
75.7 x 63.1 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
91.5 x 79.1 x 6.0 cm (frame, external)
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Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723), previously identified as
Edmund Waller (1606-87), previously identified as
