Sir Thomas Parker of Ratton (b.1594/5 - 1663)
Marcus Geeraerts, the younger (Bruges 1561/2 - London 1635/6)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1620
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
2134 x 1346 mm (84 x 53 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon (Accredited Museum)
NT 872163
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Sir Thomas Parker of Ratton (b.1594/5 - 1663) by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (Bruges 1561 – London 1635), circa 1620. A full-length portrait, almost facing to right, his right hand on his hip, his left on his sword. He wears white brocade doublet, red pantaloons, red garters and rosettes, and red rosettes on his shoes. A table right and a dog left. (The gloves on the table appear to be superimposed on an earlier painting of red gloves.)
Provenance
Accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death-duties from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951) and transferred to the National Trust in 1957
Credit line
Saltram, The Morley Collection (accepted in lieu of tax by HM Treasury, and transferred to The National Trust in 1957)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: Inscribed below in 18th century script: Sr Thos Parker, b:1595 Cornelius Jansen, pinxit
Makers and roles
Marcus Geeraerts, the younger (Bruges 1561/2 - London 1635/6), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Cornelius Johnson (London 1593 - Utrecht 1661), artist
References
Millar 1963 Oliver Millar, 'Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger', The Burlington Magazine, CV, 1963, p.541 Strong 1969 Roy Strong, The English Icon, Elizabethan and Jacobean Portraiture, 1969, p.302, no.311, illus p.302