Live Auction 8631Old Masters & British Paintings
North Italian School, 16th Century
Lot 100

North Italian School, 16th Century

Portrait of a man, three-quarter-length, in a dark blue doublet with slashed sleeves, holding a spear and a sword, with a helmet beside him

Closed11 April 2013

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GBP 15,000

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North Italian School, 16th Century
Portrait of a man, three-quarter-length, in a dark blue doublet with slashed sleeves, holding a spear and a sword, with a helmet beside him
oil on panel
49¼ x 35½ in. (125 x 90 cm.)

Specialist note

An attribution to the Netherlandish artist Jan Stephan von Calcar (1499-1546/50) has been proposed for the present lot, and it has also been suggested that the sitter is Don Pedro Alvarez de Toledo y Zúñiga, Marquéz de Villafranca del Bierzo (1484-1553), Viceroy of Naples under Charles I of Spain.