Anthony van Dyck

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<a class="recordlink artists" href="/explore/artists/25230" title="Anthony van Dyck"><span class="text">Anthony van Dyck</span></a>

Illustration number 0000145322
Dimensions: 1695x2797 pixels

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Object information

Object category: painting
Support/medium: canvas, oil paint
Shape/dimensions: rectangle (portrait format) 193.7 x 126 cm

Current attribution: Anthony van Dyck
the attribution was doubted for a long time, till Barnes 2003, who sees it as authentic. The surface of the painting has had a hard life and suffered abrasions, especially in the faces

Date Exact or approximate dating of the described art work; the search parameters adopted for this art work in this database, are found in brackets.: c. 1638 (1637 - 1639)

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Portret van twee onbekende mannen
Other (former) title Other title(s) or name(s) which the work of art has had, or by which it is also known. This sometimes involves rejected identifications of the subject or sitter.: Portret van Lord John Stuart en Lord Bernard Stuart, later Earl of Lichfield
English title: Portrait of two unknown men
Genre: portrait
Keywords: man's portrait, young man, full-length portrait, long hair (men's hairstyle), boot, drapery
: see for an extensive discussion about the persons depicted Barnes 2003; the inscriptions (lower right) are apocryphical

Provenance

Collection(s)

private collection Johannes Baptista Jaspers, Antwerp/London
- 1682
private collection Anthony Grey (11th Earl of Kent), England
and thence by descent in the Lucas-Grey family
1682 - 1922
National Gallery (London), London (England) , inv./cat.nr NG 3605
bought from baroness Lucas
1922 -

Exhibitions and literature

Literature

Cust 1900 , p. 283
Larsen 1988 , not mentioned
Gordenker 2001 , p. 62-63
Barnes et al. 2004 , IV.244

Visual documentation

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

, Original location BD/RKD/0376 - ONS/Portraits 1 (img.nr. 0000145322)

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Creation date: 2009-03-12; Last modified date: 2018-01-05

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