WOLFFORT, Artus
(b. 1581, Antwerpen, d. 1641, Antwerpen)

St Jerome

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Oil on panel, 65 x 49 cm
Private collection

Wolffort delights in the tangibility of texture: the long silken beard and dirty fingernails, the wrinkled forehead and ruddy cheeks. The white surplice and red cope indicate the sitter's membership of the Church, but without clear attributes he is difficult to identify. He is probably St Jerome from a series depicting the Church Fathers.




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