HIERONIMO CUSTODIS Oil on Panel Painting, Portrait of Martin James of Smarden buddhas Width 24 Depth 24 Height

Width 24 Depth 24 Height 27 inches

(1) Width 31 Depth 1 Height 24

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tobacco jar with fitted lid and matte brown body with applied decoration in white

HIERONIMO CUSTODIS Oil on Panel Painting, Portrait of Martin James of Smarden buddhas Width 24 Depth 24 HeightDETAILS An antique, half length portrait of a gentleman standing beside a table with his hand resting on a skull. He wears a traditional black doublet with a white ruff collar and long gold chain necklace. The sitter is Martin (Martyn) James, Esq. (1530 93) of Smarden, Kent. With a coat of arms in the upper left corner. STYLE Renaissance Elizabethan Tudor PROVENANCE Glassenbury House (Cranbrook, Kent, England), which was the ancestral home of Sir