Abstract
In 1554 the German artist Gerlach Flicke produced a small (88 mm x 119 mm) diptych1 containing his own self-portrait and a painting of the pirate Henry Strangeways. Above the image of Strangeways, Flicke offers a verbal gloss on his work: ‘Strangwish, thus strangely, depictedis [sic] One prisoner, for thother, hath done this/Gerlin, hath garnisht, for his delight This woorck whiche you se, before youre sight’.2 In prison, perhaps as a result of some undocumented part in the 1554 Wyatt rebellion against the marriage of Queen Mary I to the Spanish king, Philip II,3 Flicke presents what are perhaps early modern art's most curious mug-shots, and the first artist's self-portrait in oils produced in England.
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