Portrait of a Man with a Landscape View

The work, titled Portrait of a Man with a Landscape View, is an oil on canvas painting by Jacopo Tintoretto dated 1570. It first entered the market in 1839 when it was bought in Bologna by the English dealer William Buchanan. Buchanan’s ownership passed to R. P. Nichols, who exhibited the picture at the 1868 National Exhibition in Leeds.

Nichols sold it to Robert Stayner Holford, later to Sir George Lindsay Holford, whose estate auctioned it at Christie, Manson & Woods in July 1927. The painting then entered the collection of Leopold Hirsch, was resold in May 1934, bought by the Goldschmidt firm, exhibited at Galerie Étienne Bignou, and acquired by Chester Dale in December 1934 before being gifted to the National Gallery of Art in 1943.

The painting is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., having been gifted to the institution by Chester Dale in 1943. Prior to this acquisition, the work passed through several notable private collections, including those of William Buchanan, R.P. Nichols, and the Holford family at Dorchester House. Its exhibition history includes a lending by Nichols to the 1868 National Exhibition of Works of Art at Leeds.

Later, while owned by Robert Stayner Holford, the piece was displayed at the Royal Academy's Winter Exhibition in 1887. The work also appeared at auction houses Christie, Manson & Woods in London during estate sales in 1927 and 1934 before being sold to Dale via Galerie Étienne Bignou.