{"id":1586,"date":"2009-04-23T19:23:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T01:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2009-04-23T19:23:33","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T01:23:33","slug":"what-goes-in-to-researching-a-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/23\/what-goes-in-to-researching-a-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"What goes in to researching a portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever wondered what goes in to researching portrait identification, head on over to Stephan Edwards&#8217; (a.k.a PhD Historian) website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somegreymatter.com\/haringtonportrait.htm\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to see some fascinating work that he recently did<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In mid February 2009, I was contacted by a private collector in regard to a painting he had recently purchased from an estate. The painting, seen above, bears the label Princess Elizabeth (afterwards Queen) , &#8220;The Harington Portrait&#8221; and has been attributed in the past to the artist Antonio Mor (d. ca. 1578). The collector questioned the identification and requested my opinion on it. I was able to determine at first glance that it was not, in fact, an authentic portrait of Elizabeth Tudor, so the owner asked for my assistance in determining who the sitter may have actually been. Thus began a two-month period of intensive research, and the results of that investigation are now presented here for the first time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever wondered what goes in to researching portrait identification, head on over to Stephan Edwards&#8217; (a.k.a PhD Historian) website to see some fascinating work that he recently did. Here&#8217;s the abstract: In mid February 2009, I was contacted by a private collector in regard to a painting he&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/23\/what-goes-in-to-researching-a-portrait\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-news","category-tudor-history-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}