- Object type
- Paintings
- Date
- Production: 18th century
- Artist
- Maltese School (18th century)
- Subject(s)
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Knights of Malta
Portraiture - Associated person
- Subject: Antonio Manoel de Vilhena (1663 - 1736)
- Inscriptions
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reverse: WO/1875/34
reverse: 514 S(J?)S GBS
- Dimensions
- Height x width (canvas size): 460 x 350mm
- Materials and technique
- Oil on canvas
- References
- Barclay, Malcolm. "Manoel de Vilhena." VADS. Accessed June 17, 2026. https://www.vads.ac.uk/digital/collection/NIRP/id/30281
- Catalogue number
- 1719
Grand Master Manoel de Vilhena
The Portuguese aristocrat Antonio Manoel de Vilhena was the sixty-sixth Grand Master of the Order of St John. In 1723, he paid for the building of Fort Monoel, which was named after himself. The Fort was in use until the 20th century and is supposedly haunted by a ghost known as the Black Knight, who resembles Vilhena.
