Willem Wissing, ca. 1656–1687, Dutch, active in Britain (by 1676), Portrait of an Unknown Boy, ca. 1685
- Title:
- Portrait of an Unknown Boy [2023, YCBA]
- Former Title(s):
Portrait of a Boy
A Boy with a Spear and a Hound [1985, Cormack, YCBA Concise Catalogue]- Date:
- ca. 1685
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 81 1/2 x 48 3/4 inches (207 x 123.8 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1973.1.65
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1973.1.65FR
- Subject Terms:
- boy | costume | dog (animal) | figures (representations) | gesture | greyhound | landscape | mountain | sandals | spear
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:157
- Export:
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Robert Colls, This sporting life : sport and liberty in England, 1760-1960, Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 2020, p. 371, GV706.35 .C65 2020 (LC) YCBA [ORBIS]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 256-257, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, p. 8, no. 9, pl. 4, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
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