# Portrait of an Unidentified Man Playing a Spinet

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/verelst-william-rd5c1e3e877b918/portrait-of-an-unidentified-man-playing-a-spinet-rc3201a2895a4d7>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [VERELST, William](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/verelst-william-rd5c1e3e877b918>)
- Date: 1701-1750
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 114 x 79 cm

## Commentary

The sitter was formerly identified as the British composer Thomas Arne \(1710-1778\). &lt;p&gt; &lt;table align=left cellpadding=5 border=1 width=320 bgcolor=&#34;\#99cccc&#34;&gt; &lt;tr valign=middle&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;/support/gif/listen.gif&#34; border=0 valign=middle&gt; Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 18 minutes\):&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;\#&#34; onClick=&#34;w=window.open \(&#39;/music1/18\_cent/arne\_concerto.html&#39;, &#39;newWin&#39;, &#39;scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350&#39;\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true&#34;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Thomas Arne: Concerto for cembalo in C major &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;

## Related artworks

- [John Dean \(d.1747\), Shipwrecked Mariner](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/verelst-william-rd5c1e3e877b918/john-dean-d1747-shipwrecked-mariner-reb2e336111d1b4>)
- [Portrait of Elizabeth Beckford with her Son Peter](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/verelst-william-rd5c1e3e877b918/portrait-of-elizabeth-beckford-with-her-son-peter-r99a94a0ffbf4d8>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)