An Official of a Civic Guard, aged 40
Frans Pourbus the younger (Antwerp 1569 – Paris 1622)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1593 (inscribed)
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
965 x 711 mm (38 x 28 in)
Place of origin
Flanders (Belgium from 1830)
Order this imageCollection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 11721
Summary
Oil painting on panel, An Official of a Civic Guard, aged 40 by Frans Pourbus the younger (Antwerp 1569 – Paris 1622), inscribed AETA.SUAE.40/1593 (upper left) and with coat of arms (two birds/ducks and three diamonds) (upper right). A three-quarter-length portrait of a city guardsman, in a gorget and a red sash.
Provenance
Sale, P. C. Haemacher and others [Roos except Butchard 1933]. Amsterdam 30 November 1897, lot 86 as Frans Pourbus the younger, bought by Nottebohm, Antwerp (annotation RKD, Lugt no. 55734); sale Oscar Nottebohm, Brussels, Palais des Beaux Arts, 17 December 1957, lot 68, pl, IX; The Countess of Dudley & others, Christie's, London, 23 November 1962, lot 115 at which bought Frost and Reed for Richard, 2nd Lord Wraxall; purchased by the National Trust from the estate of the late George Richard Lawley Gibbs, 2nd Lord Wraxall (1928 – 2001) with the assistance of the NHMF, Art Fund and donations from members and supporters in 2002
Credit line
Tyntesfield, The Gibbs Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Frans Pourbus the younger (Antwerp 1569 – Paris 1622), publisher
References
Ducos 2011 Blaise Ducos, Frans Pourbus le Jeune (1569-1622): Le portrait d'apparat à l'aube du Grand Siècle entre Habsbourg, Médicis et Bourbons, Dijon, 2011, P. A. 11