William Hart

Image credit: Merchant Adventurers’ Hall

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This is a half-length portrait of William Hart, a merchant, preacher and benefactor to the Company of Merchant Adventurers. The figure is depicted wearing an expensive black robe, fashionable white ruff and black skull cap. He is holding a book in his left hand and wears a gold ring on his third finger.

In the panel beneath the figure reads the inscription: 'William Hart sometimes pastor of the English Church at Embden, and afterwards at Stode beyond the seas did give 600 pounds to the companie of Merchants Adventurers to be lent to twelfe young men exercising the same trade for two yeares, and then to other twelfe successivelie for ever – and also 300 to ye poore'.

Merchant Adventurers’ Hall

York

Title

William Hart

Date

c.1620

Medium

oil on oak panel

Measurements

H 85 x W 66 cm

Accession number

YORMA 342

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

William Hart sometimes pastor of the English Church at Embden, and afterwards at Stode beyond the seas did give 600 pounds to the companie of Merchants Adventurers to be lent to twelfe young men exercising the same trade for two yeares, and then to other twelfe successivelie for ever – and also 300 to ye poore; on the sitters right is an hour glass with the word 'Fugit' above; there are also numbers, some which are illegible but two are clearly '79'. Either referring to the sitter's age or perhaps when the painting was created

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Fossgate, York, North Yorkshire YO1 9XD England

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