What is the known status of the portrait?

ad vivum (done from life); does the portrait convey vitality?

 

prime version

 

artist’s version

 

artist’s copy

 

artist and studio

 

studio copy

 

contemporary copy

 

later copy

 

variant version

 

variant copy
>> Case study 9 – John Collier by Marion Collier (nee Huxly) c.1882-1883

 

reduced-size copy

 

preparatory study

 

are areas of the portrait unresolved? Does it look like a sketch or model?

 

posthumous copy
>> National Portrait Gallery, curatorial staff (http://www.npg.org.uk/about/organisation/staff-list.php)
>> National Portrait Gallery, Heinz Archive & Library (http://www.npg.org.uk/research/archive.php)
>> Case study 17 – Unknown man and woman by an anonymous artist, c.1610-1614