Self-portrait (after Rubens)
after Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
942 x 812 x 50 mm
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Chirk Castle, Wrexham
NT 1171178
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Self-portrait (after Rubens), after Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 – Antwerp 1640), 19th century. A half-length portrait of the artist to the right. His is head turned, but still almost profile, gazing at the spectator with an upturned moustache, full beard, wearing a hat with a large upturned brim and a white lace collar. A copy from the original in the Royal Collection, 1623, aged 45, commissioned by Henry Danvers, Earl of Danby, as a present for Charles I when Prince of Wales.
Provenance
In house catalogue, c.1900, as in Drawing Room. (Shown on diagrammatic hang [east wall, left of window] )and manuscript picture list as “28. Head of Ruebens [sic].”; with some of the contents, in 1978, that were acquired along with Chirk Castle from Lt-Col Ririd Myddelton (1902–1988) by the National Land Fund and handed, on loan for 99 years, to the Secretary of State for Wales (In 1981 Chirk was transferred into the ownership of the National Trust)
Credit line
Chirk Castle, The Myddelton Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
after Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640), artist