William Cavendish, 2nd Earl of Devonshire (1590-1628)
Daniel Mytens the elder (Delft c.1590 – The Hague 1648)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1626 - 1628
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
2159 x 1308 mm (85 x 51 1/2 in)
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1129213
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, William Cavendish, 2nd Earl of Devonshire (1590-1628) by Daniel Mytens the elder (Delft c.1590 – The Hague 1648). Full-length portrait, standing, turned slightly to the right, in an interior, wearing coronation robes, his right arm by his side, his coronet held in his left hand.
Provenance
By descent until, following the death of Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire (1895 - 1950), Hardwick Hall and its contents were accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death duties and transferred to the National Trust, in 1959
Marks and inscriptions
in black ink bottom left Earl of Devonshire
Makers and roles
Daniel Mytens the elder (Delft c.1590 – The Hague 1648), artist