Edward Solly
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Edward Solly was an English merchant living in Berlin, who amassed an unprecedented collection of Italian Trecento and Quattrocento paintings and outstanding examples of Early Netherlandish painting,
Portrait of Edward Solly, (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)
Portrait of a Young Girl, Petrus Christus
Raphael's Solly Madonna
Portrait of a Young Girl is a small oil-on-oak panel painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Petrus Christus. It was completed towards the end of his life, between 1465 and 1470, and is held in th
Edward Solly
…circles, and as his business affairs prospered he was on good terms with ministry officials, the Prussian court, artists, connoisseurs and intellectuals. Portrait of a Young Girl, Petrus Christus In his travels he began to take an interest in paintings. The social turmoil of the wars and the dissolution of monasteries brought many works of art…
Right wing of the Melun Diptych, Jean Fouquet, 1452. Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp. This earlier portrait reflects the Gothic ideal found in the Christus portrait.
Portrait of a Woman, Rogier van der Weyden, c. 1460. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Similarities can be seen in the sculpted features and expression of the model.
Detail showing extensive craquelure