Page of St Andrew by WOLFFORT, Artus in the Web Gallery of Art, a searchable image collection and database of European paintings and sculptures (1100-1850)

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St Andrew

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Oil on canvas, 116 x 91 cm
Private collection

This painting belongs to a series of the Apostle paintings which includes a St Matthew and also a St. Bartholomew (in private collections). At the lower edge of each painting appears a trompe l'oeil cartouche inscribed with the article of the Creed usually associated with that Apostle, as well as a Roman numeral indicating the Apostle's usual place in the sequence.