Portrait of an Old Man ca. 1475 Hans Memling Netherlandish This sympathetic portrayal of an elderly man once formed a diptych with a portrait of an old woman (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston). Unlike the portraits of Tommaso and Maria Portinari displayed nearby, the two pictures were not parts of a devotional painting but were created with the idea of preserving the appearances of the sitters as they neared the end of their lives, a function of portraiture that became increasingly popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth Portrait of an Old Man. Hans Memling (Netherlandish, Seligenstad
Portrait of an Old Man ca. 1475 Hans Memling Netherlandish This sympathetic portrayal of an elderly man once formed a diptych with a portrait of an old woman (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston). Unlike the portraits of Tommaso and Maria Portinari displayed nearby, the two pictures were not parts of a devotional painting but were created with the idea of preserving the appearances of the sitters as they neared the end of their lives, a function of portraiture that became increasingly popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth Portrait of an Old Man. Hans Memling (Netherlandish, Seligenstadt, active by 1465–died 1494 Bruges). ca. 1475. Oil on wood. Paintings
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