Called Archduke Albrecht, Archduke of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (1559-1621)
manner of Frans Pourbus the younger (Antwerp 1569 – Paris 1622)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1600 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
851x 648 mm (33 1/2 x 25 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Flanders (Belgium from 1830)
Order this imageCollection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 20947
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Called Albrecht, Archduke of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (1559-1621) by a follower of Frans Pourbus the younger (Antwerp 1569 – Paris 1622). A half-length portrait, in a black coat with a white ruff and a double gold chain with a medallion of King Philip IV of Spain. Indistinctly inscribed on a cartellino, upper left of painting.
Provenance
Purchased by George Abraham Gibbs (1873 - 1931) from Shepherd Bros., 1909; purchased by the National Trust from the estate of the late George Richard Lawley Gibbs, 2nd Baron 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
manner of Frans Pourbus the younger (Antwerp 1569 – Paris 1622), artist