An Unknown Man called Colonel-General Lord Charles Cavendish (1620-1643)
after Daniel Mytens the elder (Delft c.1590 – The Hague 1648)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1630 - 1643
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
2172 x 1334 mm (85 ½ x 52 ½ in)
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1129219
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, An Unknown Man called Colonel-General Lord Charles Cavendish (1620-1643), after Daniel Mytens the elder (Delft c.1590 – The Hague 1648). Inscribed, bottom left in black: Colonel Charles Cavendish. Portrait of a young man, standing full length, slightly right, head to left, his hat in his left hand, a stick in his right; he wears an embroidered brown doublet and breeches and white lace collar; landscape background, right, with tower. The figure is copied from a portrait by Mytens of Henry Rich, Earl of Holland, in the National Portrait Gallery.
Provenance
Seen by Walpole at Chatsworth in 1760; 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
Credit line
Hardwick Hall, The Devonshire Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
bottom left in black Colonel Charles Cavendish
Makers and roles
after Daniel Mytens the elder (Delft c.1590 – The Hague 1648), artist