File talk:Albrecht Dürer - Bernard von Reesen - Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Dresden.jpg
From English Wikipedia:
Samenvatting[edit]
Portrait of Bernard van Orley by Albrecht Dürer.
Source : [1]
My information from www.wga.hu.com says this portrait by Albrecht Durer is
of a gentleman named Bernhard von Reesen, not Orley
http://www.wga.hu/html/d/durer/1/09/7reesen.html
And the information states that Durer himself made a diary entry to that
effect:
The man in the portrait holds a message on which the first few letters of his name can be read `P[or B]ernh', the rest being hidden by the fingers of his left hand. This is almost certainly the painting to which Dürer refers in his Antwerp diary in late March 1521, recording that he had `made a portrait of Bernhart von Resten in oils' for which he had been paid eight florins. Dürer's reference is probably to Bernhard von Reesen (1491-1521), a Danzig merchant whose family had important business links with Antwerp. His name suggests that his family originated from Rees, a town on the Lower Rhine 100 miles east of Antwerp
Here is link to the painting at wga.hu: http://www.wga.hu/art/d/durer/1/09/7reesen.jpg
(Above Comment by Mcsquared of English Wikipedia)
Moving the text --AllyUnion (talk) 18:20, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
