KEY, Adriaen Thomasz
(b. ca. 1544, Antwerpen, d. after 1589, Antwerpen)

Portrait of a Bearded Man

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Oil on panel, 51 x 40 cm
Private collection

Wearing a chain of brass guild medallions, the sitter would have been a prominent guild member and distinguished figure in Antwerp; the medallions display the monogram HG and the Habsburg eagle, likely the arms of the margraviate of Antwerp.