A chemist. Oil painting, ca. 1900 (?).
- Date:
- [1900?]
- Reference:
- 583788i
- Pictures
About this work
Description
A man, seated or standing, left, at a table, right. He wears a yellow shirt and a pink tunic with a red and green cloak. He is modelled on the engraved portrait of Abraham Gorlaeus (1549-1609), a scholar of coins, medals, seals and rings, which appears as a frontispiece to his Dactyliotheca (Delft 1601), engraved by Jacques De Gheyn. The table has a blue-green cloth. Chemical equipment is on the table and in a cabinet behind
Publication/Creation
[1900?]
Physical description
1 painting : oil on wood ; wood 24.6 x 19.2 cm
References note
Catharine MacLeod, Timothy Wilks, R. Malcolm Smuts and Rab MacGibbon,The lost prince: the life and death of Henry Stuart, London: National Portrait Gallery, 2012, pp. 132-133 (portrait of Gorlaeus)
Reference
Wellcome Collection 583788i
Type/Technique
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesNote