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Portrait of an Unknown Man

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Leicester Museum & Art Gallery

Portrait of an Unknown Man

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This portrait has a prior connection with Leicester’s Abbey Pumping Station (now the technology museum) suggesting it may show a member of the local Gimson family, though no conclusion on this was reached in Art UK's Art Detective discussion of 2023. There was, however, an early and firm view that the artist is likely to be the Hungarian-born Arthur Pan (1894–1983).

Leicester Museum & Art Gallery

Leicester

Title

Portrait of an Unknown Man

Date

1930s/1940s

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 101.5 x W 91.3 cm

Accession number

Y.F17.2009.0.0

Work type

Painting

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