Self Portrait (The Chenille Net)

Self Portrait (The Chenille Net)A self portrait, exhibited under the above title at the RA and at the Glasgow Institute in 1938 and awarded a gold medal at the Paris Salon of 1947.

The ship can be identified from the stork on her stern as the Ooeivaar

painted for the lawyer Carlo Cordellina in 1743

He is intending to crown the victor of the fight that takes place centre stage

He probably first trained with his father and is said to have also studied with Frans Hals

while a nymph lifts the goat to allow Jupiter to drink its milk

which James Boaden acquired from an émigré during the French Revolution and subsequently gave to Desenfans ('Memoirs of the Life of John Philip Kemble'

and he was always famous for his horses

is a fitt Embleme to express the state her bodie then was in'

It is absorbed by the girl's frizzy hair like a cloud

This identification might have been prompted by the fact that Frobisher was given 'a fair chain of gold' by Elizabeth I for his Arctic exploration

the attribution to Piero di Cosimo seems now to be generally accepted

The story of the adulteress is recorded in St John's Gospel and describes how the woman is saved from being stoned to death by Christ's words: 'He that is without sin among you