How you can use this image
This image can be used for non-commercial research or private study purposes, and other UK exceptions to copyright permitted to users based in the United Kingdom under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended and revised. Any other type of use will need to be cleared with the rights holder(s).
Review the copyright credit lines that are located underneath the image, as these indicate who manages the copyright (©) within the artwork, and the photographic rights within the image.
The collection that owns the artwork may have more information on their own website about permitted uses and image licensing options.
Review our guidance pages which explain how you can reuse images, how to credit an image and how to find images in the public domain or with a Creative Commons licence available.
Buy a print or image licence
You can purchase this reproduction
If you have any products in your basket we recommend that you complete your purchase from Art UK before you leave our site to avoid losing your purchases.
Notes
Add or edit a note on this artwork that only you can see. You can find notes again by going to the ‘Notes’ section of your account.
This picture looks like an Italian Renaissance portrait but is in fact a forgery made in the early twentieth century. It includes elements found in the originals, such as the stone window opening onto a view of the Italian countryside and the view of figures in profile. It was purchased in 1923 as a fifteenth-century work, possibly by an artist close to Melozzo da Forli (1438–1494). The forger added a stamp with a coat of arms in the top corner intending to suggest the sitters were from the renowned Montefeltro family of Urbino. By 1951 the picture was recognised as a fake. Scientific investigation of the panel in 1996 revealed that some of the pigments used – including cobalt blue and cadmium yellow – were not available before the nineteenth century.
Title
Portrait Group
Date
early 20th C
Medium
Oil and tempera on wood
Measurements
H 40.6 x W 36.5 cm
Accession number
NG3831
Acquisition method
Bought, 1923
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
-
Votive Painting Showing a Man Being Kicked by a Horse, Naples, Italy The Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford -
Saint Ursula Arriving on a Rocky Coast Stockport Heritage Services -
A Carnival Scene Mount Edgcumbe House -
Madonna and Child in a Landscape Mount Edgcumbe House -
The Madonna of the Lilies Erewash Borough Council -
Rachel at the Well The Wilson -
The Salutation (The Visitation) Chiswick House - 517 more