Portrait of a Man

Artist Unknown , active late 16th century

Date1581

MediumOil on pine wood panel

Dimensions27 x 18 in. (68.6 x 45.7 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. James MacLamroc

Object numberGL.67.13.3

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Provenance[All Balliol Scott family property, presumed to include the NCMA’s eight “Scott” portraits, pass through various branches of the family of Scots’ Hall, Smeeth, Kent, England]; George Scott (1673–1728); by descent to Edward Scott (1710–1765), Scot’s Hall, Smeeth, ca. 1728: by descent to Francis Talbot Scott (1745–1789), 1765; Scott family portraits are transferred to Caroline Scott (1751–1809) and her husband George Best (1760–1818), Chilston Park, Kent, England, ca. 1784–1795; by descent to Thomas Fairfax Best (1786-1849) and Margaret Anna Brett Best (d. 1882), London, Chilston Park, and Weirton Park, Boughton Monchelsea, Staplehurst, Kent, 1818; by descent to Frances Best and her husband, Major William Henry Archer, 1882; by descent to their son Major Henry Alan Fairfax Best Archer and his wife, Catherine Maria Scott; paintings sold to Sir Edward Arthur Barry (1858–1949), who married Scott descendent Eleanor Margaret Scott (d. 1916), Ockwells Manor, Berkshire, England, between 1891 and 1916; paintings sold to Colonel Frank Douglas Scott, Sir Edward Arthur Barry allows the portraits to remain at Ockwells Manor, Berkshire, England, 1947; sold to James G. W. MacLamroc, Greensboro, NC, 1965 [portraits come directly to NCMA in June 1965]; given to NCMA, 1969. [PDF of Unedited Provenance notes is attached to this TMS record.]Published ReferencesHarry Reeve, A Journey in Discovering Reginald Scot (unpublished research paper, 1999), illus. (b-w) unnumbered page.

Harry Reeve, "Reginald Scott - The Journey Continues…," The Magic Circular 97, no. 1041 (April 2003), 118-121, illus. (b-w), also illus. (color) cover.

Noel Daniel, ed., Magic: 1400s–1950s (Cologne: Taschen, 2013), illus. (color) 118.

Father Michael Collins et al, Books That Changed History (London: Dorling Kindersley, 2017), illus. (color)Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Mary Duke Biddle Education Gallery, “Facets of Faces: Functions of Portraits,” September 1, 1989-June 1, 1990.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “History and Mystery: Discoveries in the NCMA British Collection,” August 6, 2016–June 25, 2017.
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