Portrait of Joris van Egmond
by SCOREL, Jan van, Oil on panel, 57 x 80 cm
The sitter of this portrait of unusual format is Joris van Egmond (1504-59), Bishop of Utrecht from 1534 to 1559, a member of a family that was successively raised in political importance by the Habsburgs in the late 15th and 16th centuries. He is portrayed life-sized, turned slightly into three-quarter view against an undifferentiated green background.