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Sir Thomas Parker of Ratton (b.1594/5 - 1663)

Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (Bruges 1561/2 - London 1636)

Category

Art / Oil paintings

Date

circa 1620

Materials

Oil on canvas

Measurements

2134 x 1346 mm (84 x 53 in)

Place of origin

England

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Collection

Saltram, Devon

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 Gheeraerts the Younger (Bruges 1561/2 - London 1636), 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, London, 1969, p.302, no.311, illus p.302

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