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Summary
| Artist |
Unknown author |
| Object type | painting |
| Description |
English: Portrait of a young man standing under a tree, leaning on a halberd in the attitude of a melancholy shepherd, gazing at a suit of black tilting armour, with a fortified city and a battle in progress in the distance. Probably Sir Robert Sidney; possibly Sir Thomas Knollys. |
| Date | between circa 1584 and circa 1588 |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Object history |
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| Inscriptions |
bottom left: ... Knollis
faint, overwritten bottom left: Rob. Sidney
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| Notes | Elizabeth Goldring (2005) sets the date of the portrait as 1587/88 based on the inventories of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and suggests that the painting depicts Sir Robert Sidney in mourning for his elder brother, Sir Philip Sidney, with a suggestion of the Battle of Zutphen in the background.[1] |
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| Source/Photographer | Scanned from Weiss Gallery, The Courtly Image, London 2002, cat. 7. |
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- ↑ Goldring, Elizabeth (August 2005). "'So lively a portrait of his miseries': Melancholy, mourning, and the Elizabethan malady". British Art Journal 6 (2): 12-22. Retrieved on 2014-10-04. - via JSTOR (subscription required)
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