Lot 180

16TH CENTURY NETHERLANDISH SCHOOL
PORTRAIT OF A MAN IN FUR CAPE HOLDING A HEARTSEASE





Auction: Five Centuries: 15 November 2023 From 10:00
£32,700
Description
Oil on panel
Dimensions
34cm x 28cm (13.5in x 11in)
Provenance
Note: A handwritten letter verso states that 'This portrait painted by Hans Holbein was bought at the sale of Alexander Stuart of Dunearn's Paintings, 24th July 1786 [indistinct], Price Five Guineas'. Letter also states: 'Sir Thomas More. "Like Cato firm, like Aristides just
Like rigid Cincinnatus nobly poor,
A dauntless soul erect who smiled on death".
James Thomson's Summer, line 1479'.
Provenance: Sale of paintings of Alexander Stuart, Esq, of Dunearn at the Royal Exchange, Edinburgh, 24th July 1786, lot 131




