M558: Portrait of Sir John Burroughs
(c.1620-1623)
Biographical information
By:
VAN RAVESTEYN, Jan AnthoniszExecuted in:
Support:
canvas
Medium:
oil
Dimensions (cm):
212.70 x 107.00
Signed?
YES
Museum:
Rijksmuseum [inv.nr: SK-A-2527]
Museum-link
RKD-link
Data
Description:
Preparatory layers:
1 (G)
Free-text description:
Grey ground, different shades on added strips
Paint layers (oil)
canvas
Layer information:
(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)
Layer 1:
Colour: Grey
Composition:
Data information:
Reliability-rating:
3
Researchers:
Ige Verslype
Source:
Bikker, Jonathan, Yvette Bruijnen, and Gerdien Wuestman, eds. Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: Volume 1 - Artists Born between 1570 and 1600. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum; Nieuw Amsterdam, 2007.