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RSA Life Class, Session 1892 -3

The Adoration of the Shepherds (detail)

The painting from which the copy has been made was attributed to Velazquez in the 1853 J. F. Lewis RSA Exhibition Catalogue. The painting has since…

Portrait of an unidentiifed gentleman 'E'

The forthright gaze of the sitter may indicate that this is a self portrait, possibly by an early member of the Royal Scottish Academy. The style of…

Portrait of an unidentiifed gentleman 'C'

Henricus Sacheverell S.T.P.

The subject was an Irish cleric whose impeachment led to anti Whig rioting and ensured the Tories were returned to Parliament

R.P.F. Adrianus Motmans Ord. F.F.Minorum Provinc Germ. Inferioris Obiit Horne Ao MDCLII Aetatis LVIII

The verse below image is by Joos van den Vondel (ref The Works of Vondel, various editors, Amsterdam,(1931), Part 5 p. 561) New Netherlands…

In effigiem veneranDi doctissimi piisimiq. Viri Domn. Georgii Goedhalsii Gandav. Flandri. Verbi divini antehac in blaricum et laren: Iam vero in ecclesia hornana ministry fidelissimi ipsoque aetatis LXXXIII et ministerii sacri LVIII anno.

Rijsksmuseum (www.rijksmuseum.nl) holds an impression ref RP-P-1937-868 which gives two other names mentioned on the print. The website does not…

Portrait of an unidentified gentleman

John Hampden

a plate from Harrison’s edition of Paul de Rapin-Thoyras’ A History of England, first published by the Knapton Brothers in the 1730s

Iacque Vrancquart

a plate from the book Image de divers homme d’esprit sublime etc, published by Jan Meissens in Antwerp in 1649 and re-used for the 1694 publication…

Portrait of an unidentified gentleman

Bald man in a loose hat, possibly Alexander Pope