17th-Century Portrait Of A Spanish Actor Italy and it would look extraordinarily

and it would look extraordinarily out of place not to

some scratches

The mark you can see in the lower right is on the glass rather than the drawing

you’d generally expect it to have a coarse man-made weave but this one appears finer and machine-made

Oil on wood

17th-Century Portrait Of A Spanish Actor Italy and it would look extraordinarilyA large 17th century portrait of an actor dressed to the nines while performing on stage. His outfit dates to around 1585, so its plausible that hes taking part in a Shakespearean play. Perhaps this painting was a commission by the actor himself to celebrate a particularly illustrious role? We can only speculate but its certainly had an interesting life. Several areas of the painting are so worn that the paint is barely visible for example, the