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| Unknown artist, c1640. NPG |
A new National Portrait Gallery display, Imagined Lives: portraits of unknown people, brings together a collection of works where the subjects have been misidentified.
One unusual deathbed portrait (above) was thought to be James Scott, Duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch, though this has since been discredited. The painting was produced around 1640, and to augment the display writer John Banville fills in the gaps by imagining the young man's childhood, education and ultimate fate serving in the New Model Army ...