Keywords: Meester van de 1540s - Portret van een bebaarde Heer met een paar handschoenen.jpg Artwork creator master of the 1540s ~ 1541 1551 oil oak cm 65 5 47 5 object history Art market London 1925;<br/>Anonymous sale New York Sotheby's 20 January 1983 lot 59 when acquired by the late owner credit line inscribed upper left A- 1520 see note and upper right AETATIS SVAE/ 29 Max Jakob Friedländer Max J Friedländer reproduces the work in his 1975 revised edition with a photograph taken in 1925 showing the picture before the addition of '20' as the last two digits of the date so these were added subsequently perhaps to facilitate an attribution to an earlier portraitist such as Holbein or van Cleve The upper right hand inscription is shown fuller giving the sitter's age as AETATIS SVAE/ 29 The 29 presumably a later addition has been removed in a subsequent cleaning accession number http //www sothebys com/de/auctions/ecatalogue/2011/old-master-british-paintings-day-sale-l11034/lot 135 html Sotheby's London 07 Juli 2011 lot 135 PD-old-100 DEFAULTSORT Master of the 1540s Portrait male Sotheby's 2011 Master of the 1540s 16th-century oil on panel paintings 16th-century portrait paintings of men Male fur clothing in art Marten clothing in art Images from Sotheby's Fur fashion in 1546 |