Portraiture

Leonardo da Vinci – The Salvator Mundi

On Wednesday 15th November 2017 Christie’s sale rooms in New York offered a painting of Christ as Saviour of the World by the Renaissance polymath, Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519).  The hammer price reached was $400,000,000! This painting has to be one of the most incredible finds of the 21st century. I was privileged… Continue reading Leonardo da Vinci – The Salvator Mundi

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Amy Robsart (1532-1560) – possibly!

Another theory regarding the Yale miniature. Is it Amy Robsart and who is it painted by?

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Alice Hilliard

Hilliard’s lovely portrait of his beloved Alice now in the V&A, London