The unknown young aristocrat, in what seems to be Court dress, wears an absolute fortune in clothing; sumptuous silk, satin and lace decorated with fine embroidery, even the inside of his cloak is richly ornamented.
..posible referring to the event this portrait was painted to commemorate.
GILBERT JACKSON (active 1621-1640) was an itinerant portrait painter who seems to have worked in North wales in the 1630s. He also had an academic clientele in Cambridge and Oxford.
Jackson was made a Freeman of the Painter-Stainers Company, London in 1640.
His work, like this one, tends to be highly finished, with an eye for detail and although it follows in the manner of Cornelius Johnson it retains a charmingly naive quality.
SIZE: 45.5 x 38 inches inc. frame.
PROVENANCE: Burrow Hall, Lancashire.
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Sold....portrait of a Young Nobleman C.1635; Attributed to Gilbert Jackson.
