'Self-portrait in a Fur Coat, aged 28' (after Du?rer)

German School. Oil painting on panel, 'Self-portrait in a Fur Coat, aged 28' (after Du?rer), German School, 17th/early 18th century. Bears monogram upper left and date: 1500/AD [pun on Anno Domini as well as the orginal artit's initials] and inscribed upper right: Albertus Durirus Noricus / impsum me propriis sic effin / XI coloribus, ætatis / meæ XXVIII. [I' Albrect Durer of Nuremburg painted myself thus, with undying colour, at the age of twenty-eight years]. A copy of the half-length self-portrait derived from Albrecht Dürer's well-known picture in a fur-collard Robe, once on public display in the Great Hall of Nuremberg's Town Hall during the orginal artist's lifetime and now in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich. He is facing, gazing at the spectator, dark long hair, dressed in black and brown gown with a cur collar, his right hand holding the gown together at this breast, against dark background. Ickworth, Suffolk (Accredited Museum)