Sir Thomas Lucy III, MP (1585 – 1640)
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1622
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1270 x 1016 mm (50 x 40 in)
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Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533820
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Sir Thomas Lucy III, MP (1585 – 1640), British (English) School, circa 1622 (previously after Cornelius Janssen van Ceulen, also called Cornelis Johnson (London 1593 - Utrecht 1661), inscribed: Deus mihi haec otia fecit. [God has made leisure for me here: Virgil, Eclogue I. 6]. A three-quarter-length portrait of Sir Thomas Lucy III, positioned and looking to the right. He is dressed in black with a white ruff and cuffs. He has a brown pointed beard and shoulder length hair. He is seated in a wooden, studded armchair with a table on his left-hand side and a curtain behind him. He is holding a volume of Julius Caesar and a volume of Hippocrates lies with other volumes on the table beside him. This portrait was taken after his portrait in family group (533841) and is a pair with the portrait of his wife Lady Alice Spencer Lucy (533821). Framed in large gilt frame. Sir Thomas Lucy III was knighted in 1614 and was MP for Warwickshire, 1614-28. In 1610 he married Alice Spencer (d1648) and had 13 children. He died aged 56 after been thrown from his horse. He was fond of music, theatre, books and riding which is reflected on his tomb in St Leonards’ Church, Charlecote.
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy (1896 – 1965), two years after the death of his father, Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, 3rd Bt (1870 – 1944), with Charlecote Park and its chief contents, in 1946
Credit line
Charlecote Park, The Fairfax-Lucy Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Canvas: Inscribed: Deus mihi haec otia fecit. [God has made leisure for me here: Virgil, Eclogue I. 6].
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist after Cornelius Johnson (London 1593 - Utrecht 1661), artist