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Portrait of a boy with the Perceval family coat of arms

Unknown artist, 1610

The sitter is depicted full length, in Elizabethan costume at the age of about eleven, he comes from a family in Candover, near Shrewsbury. Inscribed with a coat of arms.

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Title of artwork, date

Portrait of a boy with the Perceval family coat of arms, 1610

Date supported

1983

Medium and material

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

144 x 71 cm

Grant

1250

Total cost

11500

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