Portrait of a Young Englishman [SEP] creator
Portrait of a Young Englishman
Portrait of a Young Englishman ("Portrait of a Young Man with Grey Eyes") is a 1540–45 portrait by Titian, now held in the Palazzo Pitti. Its subject is unidentified, but may be Henry Howard, Ottavio Farnese or Ippolito Rominaldi.
enjoyed a high reputation, and died there on 1 January 1701, aged 66.
About 1698 he had painted a portrait of Joseph Ferdinand, the young son of Maximilian II, which was engraved at Munich by Zimmermann. A number of mezzotint engravings done from portraits by Gascar, but bearing no engraver's name, have been attributed to Gascar himself. There is no evidence that he really engraved them, but the inscriptions do indicate the work of a non-Englishman. They are interesting as being among the earliest specimens