Monday, August 4, 2025

Virile Costuming

Lucas van Leyden
Standard Bearer
ca. 1510
engraving
British Museum


Anonymous Netherlandish Printmaker
Portrait of the Duke of Guelders
1519
hand-colored woodcut
British Museum

Jean Clouet
Portrait of a Young Man
ca. 1520
drawing
British Museum

Monogrammist A.G.
Portrait of a Young Man
1540
oil on panel
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Francesco Salviati
Portrait of a Florentine Nobleman
ca. 1546-48
oil on panel
Saint Louis Art Museum

Nicolas Neufchâtel
Portrait of Nuremberg patrician Hieronymus Koler
ca. 1563-67
oil on canvas
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Monogrammist L.A.M.
Portrait of a Man
1574
oil on panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

attributed to Luca Cambiaso
St George
before 1585
drawing
British Museum

Hieronymus Custodis
Portrait of Sir John Ashburnham
1593
oil on panel
Denver Art Museum

Marcus Geeraerts the Younger
Portrait of a man in classical dress,
possibly Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke

ca. 1610
oil on panel
Tate Britain

Filippo Napoletano (Filippo Angeli)
Soldier in Cloak and Turban
(series, Capricci e Habiti Militari)
before 1629
etching
British Museum

Gerritt Willemsz Horst
Portrait of a Young Man in Fancy Dress
ca. 1645-50
oil on canvas
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

Jacob van Oost the Elder
Jacob van Oost the Younger in Exotic Costume
ca. 1655
oil on canvas
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario

Bartholomeus van der Helst
Portrait of Daniel Bernard
1669
oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Jan de Bisschop
Portrait of David Vlugh, Admiral of Holland
ca. 1670-
drawing (print study)
British Museum

Gillis Neyts
Young Man with Walking Stick
before 1687
ink and watercolor on paper
British Museum

Jan Kupecký
Portrait of a Nobleman
1709
oil on canvas
Národní Galerie, Prague

unappealing (one l)
unauthorized, not -ised
una voce (Lat.), unanimously
unbaptized, not -ised
unberufen (Ger.), absit omen
unbiased, not -ssed
unbribable, not -eable
unbusinesslike (one word)
uncared-for (hyphen)
unchangeable, not -gable
unchristian (one word)
uncircumcised, not -ized

unsaleable, not -lable
unscalable, not -eable
unselfconscious (one word)
unsewn binding (bind.), method in which the gatherings of each volume are clamped together, their back folds sheared off, and the resultant leaf-edges glued to a flexible backing 
unshakeable, not -kable
unskilful, not -skill-
untraceable, not -cable

The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors, compiled by the Oxford English Dictionary Department, Oxford University Press (12th edition, 1981)