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Photo credit: : Ferens Art Gallery

Subject or sitter Dress and Textiles, Portraits: British 16th and 17th C, Portraits: British 18th C, Yorkshire and the Humber: Artists and Subjects 18

Forward Further information sought on Nathaniel Cholmley (d.1687) and the Cholmley family

Photo credit: : National Trust for Scotland, Culloden Battlefield & Visitor Centre

Other Dress and Textiles, Portraits: British 18th C, Scotland: Artists and Subjects 28

Forward Who is this Jacobite lady dressed in Murray tartan?

Photo credit: : Newstead Abbey

Artist Portraits: British 16th and 17th C 43

Is this painting after van Dyck, or perhaps even by him? Is the sitter Penelope, Lady Herbert (1620-1647) or someone else?

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Discoveries

Art Detective has made hundreds of discoveries since its launch – from identifying sitters to deciphering artist signatures. You can read more about some of them in our Stories section.

28 March 2019 — News

A ‘Carelli’ painting of a Middle Eastern Scene, but which Carelli?

Middle-Eastern Scene, drawing and watercolour on paper by Gabriel Carelli (1820–1900)
Photo credit: : Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum

6 March 2019 — News

Justo Ruiz Luna confirmed as artist of ancient harbour view

Reconstruction of the Ancient Port of Rome, late 19th C, oil on canvas by Justo Ruiz Luna (1865–1926)
Photo credit: : Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council

21 February 2019 — News

On the trail of Harry Clifford Pilsbury’s portraits

Daniel Henry Redhead (b.1837), JP, Mayor of Peterborough (1895 & 1905), oil on canvas, attributed to Harry Clifford Pilsbury (1870–1925)
Photo credit: : Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery

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