Portrait of Rupert (1619-1682)
after c. 1645
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
127.5; 8; 102.3
About this artwork
…; ? acquired by the 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718-92), of Hinchingbrooke, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, where recorded in 1751{N.A.M. Rodger, _The Insatiable Earl: A Life of John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich 1718-1792_, London 1993, p. 69.} and 1761{E. Montagu, 8th Earl of Sandwich, _Hinchingbrook_, London 1910, p. 4.}, seen by Horace Walpole in 1763;{_Horace Walpole’s Correspondence with George Montagu_, 1736-61, eds. W.S. Lewis and Ralph S. Brown, 2 vols., London/New Haven (Conn.) 1941, II, p....
About the Artist
Anthony van Dyck · 1599–1641
Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who revolutionized portrait painting and became the most influential court painter in 17th-century England. Born in Antwerp as the seventh of twelve children to a prosperous silk merchant, van Dyck displayed extraordinary artistic talent from childhood. He trained under Hendrick van Balen before joining Peter Paul Rubens's workshop as a...