drawing
- Museum number
- Sheepshanks.7252
- Description
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Portrait of Gillis Neyts; almost half-length in profile to left, wearing a mantle
Graphite, touched with grey ink, on vellum
- Production date
- 1650-1658 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 136 millimetres
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Width: 92 millimetres (four corners cut)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- N.B. The registration number of this drawing reflects its listing in the Sheepshanks Inventory of Prints.
Literature: J.van Tatenhove in Delineavit et Sculpsit, 15, 1995, p.41, no.11; Stijn Alsteens and Hans Buijs, 'Paysages de France dessinés par Lambert Doomer et les artistes hollandais et flamands des XVIe et XVIIe siècles'. Paris, 2008, p.261, n.6 (discusses/corrects inscription; probably dates from 1658 or before as Thomas apparently left Flanders that year).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1974 July-Dec, BM, Portrait Drawings, no.144
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Acquisition notes
- For the history of the acquisition of the Sheepshanks collection, please see Sheepshanks.1
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Sheepshanks.7252
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: S.7252
