In October 2006, the National Portrait Gallery in London acquired a late sixteenth-century, three-quarters length panel portrait of a woman, NPG 6804, and concluded that this work was a copy taken from an original likeness of the elusive Lady Jane Grey (c.1537–1554), portraying her in ...
View of the Three-Fountain Grove The Execution of Lady Jane Grey Virgin and Child The Fall of the Rebel Angels Christ in the Sepulchre with Two Angels (synopia) Siege of La Rochelle Portrait of Agniete van den Rijne Scenes from the Life of St John the Evangelist: 2. Raising...
He also oversaw the ephemeral decorations of the Joyous Entry into Antwerp by the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand in 1635. His drawings are mostly extremely forceful but not detailed; he also made great use of oil sketches as preparatory studies. He was one of the last major artists to make consis...
executed in silver and grey - is not only elegant and vital, but is also an interesting and convincing portrait. Catherine the Great was so impressed by it that she decided to sit in person for Rokotov, though she had never honoured any previous artist in this way. Her portrait, dated to...