DUTCH SCHOOL, A PAINTING, "Portrait of a Old Man with a Gold Chain," 18TH CENTURY, oil on canvas. 13" x 10 1/2" Note: The old world bearded man with a gold chain and medallion pendant resting over a gilt fringed shawl and orange-red sleeves; he sits reading over telescope or scroll tube. Resembling portraits of Leonardo Da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, and Tycho Brahe, the sitter is contemplative and focused accompanied by his tools of astronomical or business trade, the present painting fits well into a tradition of scientific and merchant portraiture popular in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

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