Item details
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Acquisition
Probably Alleyn Bequest, 1626
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Accession number
DPG370
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Artist
British School
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Date
1564
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Dimensions
34 x 27 cm
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Inscription
Inscribed upper right: Calvin / 1564
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Materials
Oil on canvas
John Calvin (1509-64) was a French reformer in Geneva. He left Paris in 1533 and settled in Geneva in 1541. The most influential writer of the Protestant reformers, he published the 'Institutiones' in 1536. The image may ultimately derive from one of the profile portraits in Beza's Icones (1580).
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