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Description English School, 17th century
Portrait of Theodore Beza (1519-1605)
inscribed upper left and right: Theodorus Beza.
oil on panel
57.9 x 44.3 cm.
Condition Report The panel is uncradled, flat and stable. The varnish is slightly discoloured. There is a vertical join which is visible from the front and has some associated retouching. Inspection under ultraviolet light confirms this and further reveals few, small and scattered retouchings in the rest of the composition, notably in the upper right corner.
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Literature Inventory, 1749, in 'Sir Windham's [
sic]?Chamber';
Catalogue of Portraits, 1920,?'Small Panels', p. 24.
Notes Theodore Beza was a French Reformed Protestant theologian, reformer and scholar who played an important role in the Reformation. He was a disciple of John Calvin and lived most of his life in Geneva.
Calvin's principal disciple and later successor, Beza was also trained as a lawyer in France. In 1548 he joined the French Reformers in Switzerland, first in Lausanne and then in Geneva. He took the post of Professor of Greek, and after Calvin's death, of Theology, in the Academy?the latter had set up there. As Calvin's successor he steered the fledgling reformed church through the latter part of the century. He died in that city in 1605 having seen the position of the reformed church strengthened in France through the Edict of Nantes in 1593.