Portrait of a Young Man Type:art print In the nineteenth century the

In the nineteenth century the picture was described as the 'famous Bolognese Locksmith' and later as the 'Locksmith of Antwerp'

Poussin stages the figures overlapping in a meticulously orchestrated arrangement

Noel Desenfans)

but his special status - he was already an established master in his own right - is demonstrated by the fact that he did not scruple to 'improve' the composition to suit his own ideas

in which he was a colleague of William Cartwright the younger

Portrait of a Young Man Type:art print In the nineteenth century theThis miniature, on ivory, was probably painted in the 1820s. The head of this anonymous sitter appears well finished, the remainder very slipshod; the background and coat seem to have been repainted, possibly because of damage cause by moulding. The former attribution to Beechey is impossible, while the sitter, who appears to be under twenty years old, cannot be Bourgeois as a label on the back states.