Portrait of a Man (formerly called Stanislaus II Augustus, King of Poland)

Portrait of a Man (formerly called Stanislaus II Augustus, King of Poland)This fine miniature was donated to the Gallery in the belief that it represented Stanislaus II Augustus, the King of Poland for whom Desenfans and Bourgeois put together the collection which was to become the core of Dulwich Picture Gallery. However, the sitter's casual posture, shrewd expression, piercing blue eyes, long Bob Hope nose, balding pate, unpowdered hair, and plain garb seem light years away from the brown eyed, roman nosed, bewigged and

In the finished ceiling

Dürck was a pupil in Leipzig of Schnorr von Carolsfeld and studied at the Munich Academy 1824-9

If so it as probably acquired in 1796

Formerly attributed to a variety of painters including Agostino Carracci

As suggested by Murray

This refers to a vision in which Christ offered her the choice between a crown of gold and a crown of thoms and she chose the latter

Baltimore may be a pendant

dwells on the homely side

An earlier treatment by Van der Werff of the same subject

but the attribution to Hobbema was rejected by Richter in 1880 in favour of Dubois

Painted probably c

The scene shows the moment in Ovid's Metamorphoses VI when Apollo and Diana slay all of Niobe's fourteen children to avenge their mother Leto