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Attributed to British School, 17th century
Portrait of an unknown man 1600 - 1799
Watercolour on card laid on ivory | 5.0 cm (Diameter) (support, diameter) | RCIN 420017
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This miniature is a late-seventeenth or eighteenth-century copy in the manner of Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543). It is close in style to a miniature in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (62.122.109) which may represent the same sitter (named as 'Arnold Franz' by the early twentieth-century scholar and author, Dr G.C. Williamson).
Provenance
First recorded in the Royal Collection during the reign of King Edward VII
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Medium and techniques
Watercolour on card laid on ivory
Measurements
5.0 cm (Diameter) (support, diameter)
6.5 cm (frame diameter)
4.9 cm (sight diameter)
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Alternative title(s)
Arnold Franz?
