£3,800
English School (16th Century) Portrait of a Bearded Gentleman, quarter length, painted aged 30 and dated 1564, oil on panel, 25.3 x 25.3 cm, frame 33.3 x 33.3 cm Notes: This type of ruffled collar was concurrent with fashion in the 1560s when ruffs were primarily still made from linen and before the development of the much larger and more elaborate designs of the 1580s. The sitter bears resemblance to the Elizabethan courtier and spymaster Francis Walsingham (1532-1590) who would have been aged 31/32 at the date of this painting. Note: the subject bears resemblance to Sir Francis Walsingham (c 1532-1590), principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, also referred to as her spymaster.
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