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Portrait of Sir P. Sidney, by Paul Veronese
By STEUART A. PEARS. (Harrow)
In the letters of Sir P. Sidney which I found at Hamburg, and which were published by Pickering, 1845, it is stated that a portrait of Sidney was painted by Paul Veronese, at Venice, for Herbert Languet. It would be very interesting to discover the existence of this picture. Languet had it with him at Prague, *framed*, as he asserts, and hung up in his room, in the year 1575. He remarks upon it, in one place, that it represented Sidney as too young (he was nineteen when it was taken); in another place he says that it has given him too sad an expression. I should add, that on Languet's death, h…
Topics: Portraiture, Art History