Portrait of a Man, Said to be Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
- Name
- Unknown (Artist)
- Title
- Portrait of a Man, Said to be Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
- Accession Number
- 2000.06.041
- Subjects
- Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586
- Format
- paintings
- Culture
- British (modern)
- Genre
- portraits
- Origin Information
- United Kingdom
- Date
- No date (16th century)
- Physical Description
- 1 painting ; 26 1/2 x 20 5/16 in. (67.4 x 51.5 cm), with frame: 33 3/16 x 27 1/4 in. (84.3 x 69.2 cm)
- Note (Medium/support)
- Oil on panel
- Note (Inscriptions/signatures)
- Inscribed on left side: Sir Philip Sidney / who writ the Arcadia
- Note (Ownership)
- Gift of Dr. Calvin H. Plimpton and his mother Anne Hastings Plimpton, to the George A. Plimpton Collection
- Note
- Despite the inscription on the painting, scholars Berta Siebeck (1939) and Alexander Judson (1958) denied that this painting, then in Plimpton’s collection, was a portrait of the poet.
- Library Location
- Art Properties, Columbia University
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- Catalog Record
- 13028132
- Also In
- Art Properties -- Columbia’s Art Collection Online
- Copyright Status
- No Copyright - United States
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-ve7r-q110