Friday, March 11, 2016

European Portraits, 1610-1620

Anonymous painter
Portrait of swaddled twins
ca. 1617
Rijksmuseum

Anonymous painter
Portrait of Phineas Pett, Shipbuilder
ca. 1612
National Portrait Gallery, London

William Larkin
Portrait of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
ca. 1616
National Portrait Gallery, London

Bartolomé González after Antonis Mor
Portrait of Ana of Austria
ca. 1616
Prado

Michael Janz van Mierevelt
Portrait of a man of the Van Beijeren family
ca. 1610-15
Prado

Daniel Mytens
Portrait of Aletheia (née Talbot) Countess of Arundel and Surrey
ca. 1618
National Portrait Gallery, London

Daniel Mytens
Portrait of Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel, 4th Earl of Surrey, 1st Earl of Norfolk
ca. 1618
National Portrait Gallery, London

The Arundels (above) were fabulously rich, and built a fabulously rich art collection during the same decades the young King Charles was building his. In the 1640s, when the Civil War broke out, Lord and Lady Arundel exiled themselves, and took the most valuable parts of their collections abroad. With his wife and the art precariously safe in Flanders (very little of it would ever return to England) Thomas Howard made his way to Italy, where he had studied in youth, and there he died.  

Robert Peake the Elder
Portrait of Princess Elizabeth, daughter of James I, about age 14
ca. 1610
National Portrait Gallery, London

Daniel Mytens
Portrait of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton
ca. 1618
National Portrait Gallery, London

Peter Paul Rubens
Portrait of Don Rodrigo Calderon
ca. 1612-15
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Michael Janz van Mierevelt
Portrait of Maurice, Prince of Orange
ca. 1615
Rijksmuseum

Ottavio Leoni
Portrait drawing of Pietro Altemps
1617
Morgan Library, New York

Hendrik Goltzius
Drawing of a young man holding a skull and a tulip
1614
Morgan Library, New York

Herman van Vollenhoven
Self-portrait of the Painter in his studio painting the portrait of a married couple
1612
Rijksmuseum