Portrait of a youth c. 1618
Oil on panel | 55.5 x 37.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 402832
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Probably painted in England c. 1618 by a painter working in the Anglo-Netherlandish style, although it is very close in style to the earliest surviving portraits by Cornelius Johnson. The sitter is currently unidentified. He wears a white satin doublet with a pattern of pinked cuts, a steel gorget with gilded decoration and a small plain linen collar. In his left ear is a diamond and pearl earring.
Along the top is inscribed 'OSANT, ET CRAIGNANT' ('daring and fearing'), over a contemporary but painted out inscription 'Ozant et Craig...'Provenance
Sometimes assumed to have been acquired with other historical portraits in 1731 when Frederick Prince of Wales purchased the lease of Kew House from Samuel Molyneux, husband of Lady Elizabeth Capel (d. 1731); probably the panel, described as 'indifferent' and without attribution, in the Queen Caroline's Dressing Room at Kensington Palace in 1818 (no 516)
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on panel
Measurements
55.5 x 37.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
69.3 x 51.7 x 7.0 cm (frame, external)
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Alternative title(s)
A youth in white