Unknown Man, by Isaac Oliver I

An image of Miniature. Unknown Man. Oliver, Isaac I (British, 1556(?)-1617). Watercolour on vellum on card, height 54 mm, width 49 mm, 1588. Production Note: Formerly catalogued as '?Dutch School, 16th century'. New attribution by H.W. 'Disputed attribution', Graham Reynolds (Apollo, November 1985).

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Miniature. Unknown Man. Oliver, Isaac I (British, 1556(?)-1617). Watercolour on vellum on card, height 54 mm, width 49 mm, 1588. Production Note: Formerly catalogued as '?Dutch School, 16th century'. New attribution by H.W. 'Disputed attribution', Graham Reynolds (Apollo, November 1985).

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Accession Number: 3882
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: GFX 50S
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 995 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 789.61kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2018:05:29 22:36:17

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16th Century aristocracy aristocratic bald balding bearded beards blue British School collar doublet English Fitz_PDP Isaac Oliver male man middle age middle-aged miniature nobility noble nobleman oval portrait miniature portraits society society portraiture Tudor Period vellum watercolour

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