M609: Portrait of Sir Norton Knatchbull
(1667)
Biographical information
By:
VAN HOOGSTRATEN, SamuelExecuted in:
Support:
canvas
Medium:
oil
Dimensions (cm):
None x None
Signed?
UNCLEAR
Museum:
Dordrechts Museum [inv.nr: DM/021/1451]
Museum-link
RKD-link
Data
Description:
Preparatory layers:
1 (Br)
Free-text description:
1. Liver-coloured purplish/brown matrix with some bright red, black, and white particles. Ground in samples is about 30-60um thick but that is likely not representative of the layer structure
Paint layers (oil)
canvas
Layer information:
(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)
Layer 1:
Colour: Brown
Composition: Charcoal black (C), red iron oxide (Fe), lead white (Pb)
Data information:
Reliability-rating:
1
Analytical Techniques:
Sampled?
YES
Microscopy?
YES
Elemental?
YES
Researchers:
Lidwien Speleers, Erma Hermens, Moorea Hall-Aquitania
Source:
Sampled by Lidwien Speleers for Erma Hermens's Van Hoogstraten research project. Sample preparation, photography, and SEM by Moorea Hall-Aquitania
Sample information:
Sample(s):
DM/021-1451-1, 2