Ludovic Stuart, 2nd Duke of Lennox and 1st Duke of Richmond (1574-1624)
after Daniel Mytens the elder (Delft c.1590 – The Hague 1648)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1623 (after)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
2140 x 1270 mm; 33.3 kg (Weight)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486171
Caption
The Duke is shown wearing the Order of the Garter and holding the staff of office of Lord Steward. His ducal coronet is on the table. It is possible that the original may have been painted to celebrate Lennox’s elevation to the Dukedom of Richmond in 1623. There are other versions at Longford Castle and the Royal Collection. The Duke was married three times. He and his last Duchess The Duke and his last Duchess lie buried in Westminster Abbey in the King Henry VII Chapel, under a magnificent monument which was erected by her order. The canopy over the Richmond & Lennox memorial is surmounted by Fame blowing a trumpet and is supported by life-size bronze figures of Faith, Hope, Prudence and Charity. The monument was repaired by order of the Earl of Darnley in 1875 as it ‘had been barbarously demolished and despoiled of its metalwork’.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Ludovic Stuart, 2nd Duke of Lennox and 1st Duke of Richmond (1574-1624), after Daniel Mytens the elder (Delft c.1590 – The Hague 1648), after the orginal of 1623. A full-length portrait, standing, three-quarters to the right, in red, wearing a silk cap with lace rim on his head, the white staff of Lord Steward of the Household of James I in his left hand, and his right arm akimbo. On the table at right is a coronet.
Provenance
Bought by the 2nd Earl of Egremont (1710-1763) in the Lord Pomfret sale for £9.19.6. Thence by descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.
Credit line
Petworth House, The Egremont Collection (acquired in lieu of tax by HM Treasury in 1956 and subsequently transferred to the National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: Lodowick Stuart / Duke of Richmond (inscribed bottom left) Verso: in bold white paint, on the canvas: 98; in chalk, on the stretcher: 15
Makers and roles
after Daniel Mytens the elder (Delft c.1590 – The Hague 1648), artist