AFTER ANTHONY VAN DYCK (ANTWERP 1599-1641 LONDON)
AFTER ANTHONY VAN DYCK (ANTWERP 1599-1641 LONDON)
Lord Francis Villiers
oil on canvas laid on panel
34. 5 X 27.5 cm
An 18th century copy, with the intervention of a later hand, from the renowned portrait of George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Lord Francis Villiers(1635), Windsor Castle.
The sitters were the sons of the murdered Duke of Buckingham and were brought up by Charles I, with his own children. The young Duke and his brother served in the Civil War and Lord Francis, praised by the poet Andrew Marvell for his 'inimitable handsome-ness', was killed near Kingston-on-Thames.
Painted for Charles I, the doube portrait was hung near that of their sister, Lady Mary Villiers, in the Gallery at St James's Palace. Horace Walpole said that 'nothing can exceed the nature, lustre, and delicacy of this sweet picture', which he regarded as 'one of the finest of this master'.Click here to share:
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AFTER ANTHONY VAN DYCK (ANTWERP 1599-1641 LONDON)
Lord Francis Villiers
oil on canvas laid on panel
34. 5 X 27.5 cm
An 18th century copy, with the intervention of a later hand, from the renowned portrait of George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Lord Francis Villiers(1635), Windsor Castle.
The sitters were the sons of the murdered Duke of Buckingham and were brought up by Charles I, with his own children. The young Duke and his brother served in the Civil War and Lord Francis, praised by the poet Andrew Marvell for his 'inimitable handsome-ness', was killed near Kingston-on-Thames.
Painted for Charles I, the doube portrait was hung near that of their sister, Lady Mary Villiers, in the Gallery at St James's Palace. Horace Walpole said that 'nothing can exceed the nature, lustre, and delicacy of this sweet picture', which he regarded as 'one of the finest of this master'.Click here to share:
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