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| Keywords: Melancholy Young Man.jpg Portrait of a young man standing under a tree leaning on a halberd in the attitude of a melancholy shepherd gazing at a suit of black tilting armour with a fortified city and a battle in progress in the distance Probably Sir Robert Sidney; possibly Sir Thomas Knollys ~ 1584 1588 Technique oil canvas in 80 42 cite journal Goldring Elizabeth 'So lively a portrait of his miseries' Melancholy mourning and the Elizabethan malady British Art Journal 2014-10-04 6 2 12-22 http //www jstor org/stable/41614620 August 2005 - via JSTOR subscription required cite journal Strong Roy The Elizabethan Malady Melancholy in Elizabethan and Jacobean Portraiture Apollo LXXIX 1964 264-69 cited in Goldring 2005 object history Robert Dudley 1st Earl of Leicester Robert Sidney 1st Earl of Leicester Francis Cowper 7th Earl Cowper Julian Salmond Esq via descent with the Weiss Gallery London 2002 credit line faint overwritten Rob Sidney Elizabeth Goldring 2005 sets the date of the portrait as 1587/88 based on the inventories of Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester and suggests that the painting depicts Sir Robert Sidney in mourning for his elder brother Sir Philip Sidney with a suggestion of the Battle of Zutphen in the background <ref> cite journal Goldring Elizabeth 'So lively a portrait of his miseries' Melancholy mourning and the Elizabethan malady British Art Journal 2014-10-04 6 2 12-22 http //www jstor org/stable/41614620 August 2005 - via JSTOR subscription required </ref> accession number Scanned from Weiss Gallery The Courtly Image London 2002 cat 7 PD-old-100 1580s portrait paintings Halberds in art Armour in art Robert Sidney 1st Earl of Leicester | ||||
