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The Four Doctors of the Western Church: Saint Ambrose

attributed to Gerard Seghers (Antwerp 1591 – Antwerp 1651)

Category

Art / Oil paintings

Date

1600 - 1650

Materials

Oil on canvas

Measurements

1143 x 1422 mm (45 x 56 in)

Place of origin

Antwerp

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Collection

Kingston Lacy Estate, Dorset

NT 1257057

Caption

St Ambrose, one of the Four Fathers of the Latin Church, is writing DE FIDE AD GRATIANUM AUGUSTUM/ Assertio nostra Fidei har. est. He was acclaimed Bishop of Milan in 374, and baptised St Augustine in 387. His symbol is a beehive, because of the swarm of bees that is supposed to have alighted on his lips when in the cradle – a presage of his eloquence

Summary

Oil painting on canvas, The Four Doctors of the Western Church: Saint Ambrose (c.339-397), Bishop of Milan, attributed to Gerard Seghers (Antwerp 1591 – Antwerp 1651). Half-length, turned right, wearing a bishop's mitre and a cope decorated with an embroidered panel of the Coronation of the Virgin & holding a book in which he inscribes: 'DE FIDE AD GRATIANUM AUGUSTUM / Assertio nostra Fidei har. est'; an angel holding a crozier stands to the left background.

Provenance

first recorded in 1731(?); bequeathed by Ralph Bankes, 1981

Credit line

Kingston Lacy, The Bankes Collection (National Trust)

Marks and inscriptions

[..]rtio / nostrar / Fidei / har est (in iatalics in painting, right-hand page of book)

Makers and roles

attributed to Gerard Seghers (Antwerp 1591 – Antwerp 1651), artist attributed to Abraham van Diepenbeeck ('s-Hertogenbosch 1596 - Antwerp 1675) , artist

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