Adrian Fortescue (1476–1539)

Image credit: Museum of the Order of St John

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This painting shows Adrian Fortescue, an English Knight of St John from the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. He participated in England’s wars with France in 1513 and 1523 and was present at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520. He was made a Knight of St John in 1532. It was not until 1895 that he was beatified by Pope Leo XIII, reflected in this 1916 painting in the radiant circle of light around his head.

As part of his early practice, Dingli would have copied old master paintings. The original version of this painting now hangs in the Wignacourt Museum in Rabat, Malta.

Museum of the Order of St John

London

Title

Adrian Fortescue (1476–1539)

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 88 x W 60 cm

Accession number

LDOSJ1833

Acquisition method

gift from Sir Leslie Rundle

Work type

Painting

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Museum of the Order of St John

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