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 |