Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Count Palatine, Duke of Cumberland (1619-1682)
Simon Pietersz Verelst (The Hague 1644 - London 1721)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1680 - 1682
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1260 x 1020 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486254
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Count Palatine, Duke of Cumberland (1619-1682) by Simon Pietersz Verelst (The Hague 1644 - London 1721). A three-quarter-length portrait, standing, turned slightly to the left, with the head turned languidly to the right, facing. He is wearing coronation robes with the chain of the Garter, his left arm resting on a marble pedestal and with a cane in his right hand.
Provenance
Purchased by George O'Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) from the sale of Giovanni Battista Cipriani (Christie's, lot 102, 24 Mar 1786) for £28.7, 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)
Makers and roles
Simon Pietersz Verelst (The Hague 1644 - London 1721), artist
References
Prized Possessions: Dutch Paintings from National Trust Houses (exh. cat.), Holburne Museum, Bath 25 May - 16 Sep 2018; Mauritshuis, The Hague, 11 Oct 2018 - 6 Jan 2019; Petworth House, West Sussex, 26 Jan - 24 Mar 2019., pp. 175-7, no. 22
