Unknown

Male Portrait, XIXth century

1800s

Oil painting on canvas. Mid 19th century. The large scene tells an unidentified historical episode, set in the Renaissance period, in which an archbishop listens to the plea of a you...

Oil on canvas. Intense and high quality, the painting depicts a monarch of the royal house of Scotland. Around the portrait, in a painted oval frame, there are some writings: the name Rober(t) appears at the top left, the title Rex at the bottom left and the abbreviation Scot, which stands for Scotorum, on the right; the writing at the top right is not identifiable, but it seems to be an acronym. The man portrayed wears a hat and a coat adorned with ermine fur, which is considered the noblest fur, reserved for royalty. He wears a golden pendant around his neck, which depicts two leaves with the fruit of the thistle, which, in heraldry, symbolizes Scotland. The writing and the pendant therefore refer to a Robert of Scotland, probably from the dynasty that reigned in the fourteenth century. The portrait was however executed in the romantic nineteenth-century period, probably using some ancient engravings...

Oil on Canvas. Genoese school of the early 1700s. The man, whom the thick wig places in the realm of the nobility or upper middle class, wears a burnished metal breastplate, under wh...

Oil on Canvas. On the back is a pencil inscription identifying the painter portrayed as "Joseph Moreno espagnol 1662." The face framed in an oval is accompanied at the base by the pa...