- Title:
- Portrait of a Painter
- Object name(s):
- Picture; Italian
- Brief description:
- A young man is shown in half length, his body turned slightly but with his gaze fixed firmly on us. His features are quite particular – a wide mouth, long and prominent nose, dark wavy hair and brown eyes – but his identity remains a mystery. He is clearly a painter: he holds a brush in one hand, with which he is mixing colours on the painter’s palette he grasps with the other.This may be a portrait of an artist or possibly a self portrait – it is difficult to tell which because in both instances artists were often shown in the act of painting. When this work entered the National Gallery’s collection in 1906, it was thought to be a self portrait by the Bolognese painter Benedetto Gennari (1633–1715). Although both the artist and sitter have yet to be convincingly identified, the picture is probably Emilian (painted by an artist from Emilia-Romagna) and datable to the mid-seventeenth century.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1906-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1906
- Date - latest:
- 1906
- Acquisition source:
- Anna Louisa Cohen
- Associated concept:
- artists
- Credit line:
- Bequeathed by the Misses Cohen as part of the John Samuel collection, 1906
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 353/391/410/mid_N-2106-00-000015.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 64.10
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 51.40
- Form:
- None
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- canvas
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; Italian (Emilian)
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1650-74
- Object production date:
- about 1650
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1650
- Date - latest:
- 1650
- Object production person:
- Italian, Emilian
- Object production place:
- Italy
- Other number:
- NG2106
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0G7K-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG2106
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-04MY-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng32106
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Owner:
- John Phineas Jochanan Samuel
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- half length portraits
- Style:
- male portraits
- Style:
- baroque
- Style:
- academic
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 106
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 338
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 106
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- An Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery
- Reference details:
- 126
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the British and Foreign Pictures
- Reference details:
- 289
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Catalogue of Pictures by Italian Masters of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Collected by John Samuel
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The Samuel Bequest to the National Gallery
- Reference details:
- 36-7
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Annual Report of the Trustees of the National Gallery for the Year 1906
- Reference details:
- 16
- Reference note:
- Select Bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
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