Portrait of Alexander Mornauer

Portrait of Alexander Mornauer

Artist: Master of the Mornauer Portrait (not listed, Probably active about 1460 - 1488)

Original Dimensions: 17 3/4" x 15 1/4"

Location: National Gallery of Art, London

About Artwork: (Late 1470s) "This painting reflects the simple and direct manner of German portraiture of the late fifteenth century. It was once thought to be a portrait by Holbein of the German religious reformer Martin Luther, but the sitter is in fact Alexander Mornauer, town clerk of Landshut in Bavaria; the letter he holds is addressed to himself. Cleaning also revealed the wood-grain background, which had been overpainted with a layer of Prussian blue, a pigment that only became available to artists in the early eighteenth century. The colour was similar to one often used by Hans Holbein the Younger, the most accomplished of sixteenth-century portraitists. Whoever made this change may have wished to pass the portrait off as a work by Holbein, which would have had more value than a painting by an unknown German artist." - (National Gallery of Art, London)

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