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
Browse Location’s Digital Content
Catalog Record
13028132
Also In
Art Properties -- Columbia’s Art Collection Online
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-ve7r-q110