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拍品 145 PROPERTY OF THE 7TH EARL OF CLARENDON'S WILL TRUST
After Sir Anthony van Dyck
William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (1580-1630), full-length, in a black doublet and hose, holding the Lord Stewart's staff of office
已結束2015年12月9日
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William, 3rd Earl of Pembroke was an important patron of the arts and member of the Whitehall group, the circle around King Charles I who introduced a taste for the Italian old masters to England. He was, with his brother Philip Herbert, 1st Earl of Montgomery, a dedicatee of the First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays. Pembroke served as Lord Chamberlain from 1615 to 1625 and, with King James I, was the founder of his eponymous college at Oxford.
The prototype for this painting seems to have been posthumously painted by van Dyck and his studio, presumably for his brother Philip Herbert, the 4th Earl of Pembroke, one of the painter’s greatest patrons, for the Pembroke family house, Wilton. It was most probably based on a now lost likeness by Daniel Mytens, the leading portraitist of the day before van Dyck’s arrival in England. Comparable portraits of the sitter at Hardwicke Hall and the National Portrait Gallery by Mytens and his circle give credence to this hypothesis.
The prototype for this painting seems to have been posthumously painted by van Dyck and his studio, presumably for his brother Philip Herbert, the 4th Earl of Pembroke, one of the painter’s greatest patrons, for the Pembroke family house, Wilton. It was most probably based on a now lost likeness by Daniel Mytens, the leading portraitist of the day before van Dyck’s arrival in England. Comparable portraits of the sitter at Hardwicke Hall and the National Portrait Gallery by Mytens and his circle give credence to this hypothesis.