Saturday, September 12, 2026

Lord Arundel's Collections

Wenceslaus Hollar after Parmigianino
Head of a Young Woman
1645
etching
(after a drawing in the Arundel Collection)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Wenceslaus Hollar after Leonardo da Vinci
Head of a Youth
ca. 1644-52
etching
(after a drawing in the Arundel Collection)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Roman Empire
Venus
2nd century AD
marble
(formerly in the Arundel Collection)
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Roman Empire
Togatus Figure, called Cicero
(head and arms are 17th-century additions)
AD-125-150
marble
(formerly in the Arundel Collection)
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Roman Empire
Torso of Amazon
AD 120-130
marble
(formerly in the Arundel Collection)
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Albrecht Dürer
Portrait of a Woman of the Fürleger Family
1497
oil on panel
(formerly in the Arundel Collection)
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Wenceslaus Hollar after Albrecht Dürer
Portrait of a Woman of the Fürleger Family
1646
etching
British Museum

Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola)
Saturn as winged horse
seducing the oceanid Philyra

ca. 1534
drawing
(formerly in the Arundel Collection)
Royal Collection, Windsor

Hendrik van der Borcht after Parmigianino
Saturn as winged horse
seducing the oceanid Philyra

1637
etching
British Museum

Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola)
Saturn as winged horse
seducing the oceanid Philyra

ca. 1534
drawing
(formerly in the Arundel Collection)
Royal Collection, Windsor

Hendrik van der Borcht after Parmigianino
Saturn as winged horse
seducing the oceanid Philyra

ca. 1638
etching
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

Hans Holbein the Younger
Portrait of Margaret Bacon, Lady Butts
ca. 1541-43
drawing
(formerly in the Arundel Collection)
Royal Collection, Windsor

Wenceslaus Hollar after Hans Holbein
Portrait of Margaret Bacon, Lady Butts
1649
etching
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Wenceslaus Hollar after Hans Holbein
Portrait of goldsmith Hans von Zürich
1647
etching
(after now-lost painting formerly owned by Arundel)
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Adam Elsheimer
Landscape with Latona and the Lycian Peasants
ca. 1607-1608
oil on copper
(formerly in the Arundel Collection)
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne

Peter Paul Rubens
Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel
1629
oil on canvas
National Portrait Gallery, London

"Arundel was brought up as a Catholic, and his childhood was lonely and unhappy.  He became a proud, somewhat haughty, man who felt out of place in Stuart England so that, in Clarendon's expressive phrase, 'he seemed to live as it were in another nation.'  Like many such men he made little conscious attempt to impress or gain favour with his peers.  One of his contemporaries in the House of Lords described the impact he made in a telling description: 'Here comes the Earl of Arundel in his plain Stuff and trunk Hose, and his beard in his Teeth, that [yet] looks more like a Noble Man than any of us.'  Like many proud men, he found it difficult to get on easily with his social equals, including both his wife, Alethea Talbot, who was a remarkable collector in her own right, and his sovereign, of whom he disapproved because of his 'too great Affability' – not a complaint anyone else made about Charles I."

 – Francis Haskell, The King's Pictures (Yale University Press, 2013)