Sir Thomas Lucy III, MP (1585 – 1640)
William Larkin (London c.1585 – London 1619)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1609
Materials
Oil on copper (oval)
Measurements
559 x 457 mm (22 x 18 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533854
Summary
Oil painting on copper in an oval giltwood frame. Sir Thomas Lucy III, MP (1585 – 1640), by William Larkin (London c.1585 – London 1619). An oval head-and-shoulders portrait of Sir Thomas Lucy III, probably aged about 24. He is positioned half-left but facing the spectator. He has red hair and beard. He wears a dark habit enriched with gold. Potentially created as a companion portrait to Larkin’s miniature of Sir Edward Herbert, later 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1581/2 - 1648), commemorating when Herbert saved Lucy from drowning when their ship foundered on Dover pier in 1609 (see NT 533855).
Provenance
Presented 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
Makers and roles
William Larkin (London c.1585 – London 1619), artist
References
Strong 1969 Roy Strong, The English Icon, Elizabethan and Jacobean Portraiture, London, 1969, no. 326 Lees-Milne 1952 James Lees-Milne, ‘Two Portraits at Charlecote Park by William Larkin’, Burlington Magazine, XCIV, 1952, pp.352-56