A man holding a skull. Oil painting by an English painter, 1615.

1615

1 painting : oil on wood ; wood approximately 95 x 75 cm

Aprill 1615

Christopher Wright et al., British and Irish paintings in public collections, New Haven and London: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2006, p. 138

Wellcome Collection 45832i

Possibly by the same hand as a pair of portraits sold at Christie's, St James's, 11 June 1999, lots 8 and 9, portraits of Thomas Jones of Shrewsbury and his wife Sarah Jones, daughter of Richard Bavand of Chester. Thomas Jones was the first mayor of Shrewsbury and in 1625 High Sheriff of Shropshire. The Jones portraits are also dated 1615, on wood (each 90.2 x 66.1 cm.)