The Property of Sir Brooke Boothby, 15th Bt., removed from Fonmon Castle, Glamorgan
After Sir Anthony van Dyck
Portrait of a Gentleman, said to be Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford (1593–1641), three-quarter-length, wearing a black cloak over a black suit, with a wide lace collar and cuffs, a column to the left
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The Property of Sir Brooke Boothby, 15th Bt., removed from Fonmon Castle, Glamorgan
After Sir Anthony van Dyck
Portrait of a Gentleman, said to be Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford (1593–1641), three-quarter-length, wearing a black cloak over a black suit, with a wide lace collar and cuffs, a column to the left
oil on canvas
unframed: 123 x 97.9 cm.; 48⅜ x 38½ in.
framed: 140.4 x 114 cm.; 55¼ x 44⅞ in.
By descent in the Boothby family at Fonmon Castle, Glamorgan, to the present owner.
J. Steegman, A Survey of Portraits in Welsh Houses, 2 vols, Cardiff 1962, vol. II, p. 93, no. 3 (as attributed to Sir Anthony van Dyck);
A.D. Fraser Jenkins, 'The Paintings at Fonmon Castle', in S. Williams, Stewart Williams' Glamorgan Historian, vol. 7, Glamorgan 1971, pp. 60–61, reproduced (as studio of Sir Anthony van Dyck);
S.J. Barnes, N. De Poorter, O. Millar and H. Vey, Van Dyck: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, New Haven and London 2004, p. 621, under no. IV.249 (as 'a less good version' of the portrait by Sir Anthony van Dyck at Woburn Abbey).
This painting is a copy after Sir Anthony van Dyck's portrait of the same sitter at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire. That picture was presumably acquired as a portrait of the 4th Earl of Bedford, but some scholars do not find this identification entirely convincing.1
1 S.J. Barnes, N. De Poorter, O. Millar and H. Vey, Van Dyck: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, New Haven and London 2004, p. 621, no. IV.249.