''Portrait of a Man'' is a 1774 portrait by the Italian painter

Pompeo Batoni Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (25 January 1708 – 4 February 1787) was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous allegorical and mythological pictures. The high number of foreign visitors tra ...

, now in the

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. It is traditionally identified as John Scott of Banks Fee near

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, though this is not yet verified. Banks Fee was bought by a man named John Scott in 1753 and

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records a "Mr Scott" in Rome in 1770, the time and place where Batoni was active. However, it is not yet known if the two Scotts are one and the same and whether he is definitely the subject.Portrait of John Scott of Banks Fee, National Gallery
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{{18C-painting-stub Portraits by Pompeo Batoni 1774 paintings Collections of the National Gallery, London