Gilbert Soest, ca. 1600–1681, Dutch, active in Britain (by 1657)
Title:
Samuel Butler
Date:
ca. 1675
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
30 x 25 1/4 inches (76.2 x 64.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in black paint on verso: "Mr. Samuel Butler | [...] Lely P."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1974.3.14
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
wig | oval | costume | portrait | man | poet
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 146-147, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)