Oil on panel. This is a version of the standard portrait of Richard III. Almost all portraits of Richard are the same basic type, derived from a single portrait painted from life. The only notable variant is a work at the Society of Antiquities, in which the face pattern is reversed. The original, from which all other versions stem, may be the earliest known example (probably late 15th-century) in the Royal Collection.
This work was lent to an exhibition of historical art works at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1909, by a private collector.
