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Sir Anthony van Dyck
Description
- Anthony van Dyck
- Portrait of James Hay, 2nd Earl of Carlisle (c.1612-1660)
- oil on canvas, held in a 'Carlo Maratta' frame
Provenance
Probably Henry, 3rd Viscount Brouncker who bequeathed his chattels to Sir Charles Lyttelton 3rd Bt. (1629-1716 );
by descent to the present owner
Exhibited
Manchester, City Art Gallery, Art Treasures, 1857, no. 120;
London, South Kensington Museum, National Portraits Exhibition, 1866, no. 538;
Leeds, City Art Gallery, Exhibition of Works of Art, 1868, no. 3002;
London, Grosvenor Gallery, Exhibition of the Works of Sir Anthony Van Dyck, 1887, no. 103;
Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Exposition Van Dyck à l'occasion du 300e anniversaire de la naissance du maître, 1899, no. 46;
London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1900, no. 119;
Birmingham, City Art Gallery, 1926, no. 26
Literature
Catalogue of Pictures at Hagley Hall, 1900, no. 36
George Vertue, 'Notebooks' , Walpole Socitety, Vol V, p. 42;
John Loveday of Cavesham 1711-1789, ed. S Markham, 1984;
A Description of Hagley Park by the author of Letters on the Beauty of Hagley, Envil and Leasowes, Birmingham, 1777, p.5;
W. Musgrave's 'Lists of Portraits', ed. A Meyer, Walpole Society, Vol 54, 1991;
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, 1831, no,491;
J. Guiffrey, Antoine Van Dyck: sa vie et son oeuvre, 1882, no. 434 A;
L. Cust, Anthony Van Dyck: A Historical Study of His Life and Works, 1900, p.271;
E.Schaeffer, Van Dyck: des Meisters Gemalde, Klassiker der Kunst, 1909, Vol 13, p.380;
G. Gluck, Van Dyck, des Masters Gemalde, Klassiker der Kunst, 1931, no. 13, p.470;
E. Larson, The Paintings of Anthony Van Dyck, 1988, no. 782;
S.J. Barnes, N. De Poorter, O. Millar, H Vey, Van Dyck, A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, 2004, p. 619, IV. 245
Condition
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Catalogue Note
This sensitive late portrait by Van Dyck has been dated stylistically to c. 1638. The sitter was the second son of James Hay 1st Earl of Carlisle and his first wife, Honora daughter of the Earl of Norwich. He was Colonel of a Foot regiment in Germany in 1624 and soon after created Knight of the Bath. On 21st March 1632 he married Margaret third daughter of Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford. On 4th October 1637 he suceeded the Earl of Norwich, his grandfather on his mothers' side, to the title of Lord Derry of Waltham, and two years later he was able to confirm his hereditary rights to the Carlisle Islands (later called the island of Barbados). In the Civil War he was Royalist Colonel of a Regiment of Horse between 1642 and 1646, but lived chiefly in Barbados returning to England in 1652.