Live Auction 5467The Althorp Attic Sale - Including the Spencer Carriages
After Sir Anthony Van Dyck
Lot 99

After Sir Anthony Van Dyck

War and Peace, a double portrait of George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol and William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford

Closed8 July 2010

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GBP 1,500

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After Sir Anthony Van Dyck
War and Peace, a double portrait of George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol and William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford
inscribed 'George Earl of Bristol/William Earl of Bedford' (along the lower edge)
oil on paper, in a carved and gilded frame
11½ x 8¼ in. (29.2 x 20.9 cm.)
after the picture in the Picture Gallery, Althorp

Specialist note

Known as War and Peace, Van Dyck's 1637 portrait depicts George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol (1612-1677), in black silk with papers and an armillary sphere at his feet, and his brother-in-law William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford (1616-1700), in red with his helmet and breast-plate at his feet. On the outbreak of the Civil War they fought on opposing sides, Lord Bristol for the Royalists and Lord Bedford for the Parliamentarians.