Portrait of a Man, Said to be Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?-1618)
Accession Number
2000.06.058
Subjects
Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618
Format
paintings
Culture
British (modern)
Genre
portraits
Origin Information
United Kingdom
Date
No date (19th century)
Physical Description
1 painting ; sight 11 1/4 x 8 5/16 in. (28.7 x 21 cm), with frame: 15 x 12 in. (38.1 x 30.6 cm)
Note (Medium/support)
Oil on panel
Note (Inscriptions/signatures)
Inscribed upper left: Sir Walter Raleigh / AETATIS SUAE / 30
Note (Ownership)
Gift of Dr. Calvin H. Plimpton and his mother Anne Hastings Plimpton, to the George A. Plimpton Collection
Note
This small panel painting is likely a 19th-century copy in homage to a Tudor/Stuart portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh or another man. If the inscription on the painting were original, then this painting would date from ca. 1582, when Sir Walter Raleigh w ould have been thirty years of age. Dealer Charles J. Sawyer suggested to Plimpton that the artist might be Federico Zuccaro (1542-1609), but there is no evidence to support this claim.