William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (1573 – 1645), aged 66 (after the original of 1639)
after Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1639 (inscribed)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
737 x 610 mm (29 x 24 in)
Place of origin
England
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Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533867
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (1573-1645), aged 66, after Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641). A half-length portrait of William Laud, he has a direct gaze with the spectator and is wearing clerical dress. Inscribed : AET 66 Octob 7 1639. In a fine 18th Century carved wooden frame with carved sections to the top and bottom of the frame. There are a series of five paintings framed in these frames. The original painting is in the Hermitage, St Petersburg, although the Lambeth Palace portrait is also thought to be original and the Fitzwilliam Museum also have a copy (three-quarter-length).
Provenance
On loan from Sir Edmund Fairfax-Lucy (b. 1949)
Makers and roles
after Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641), publisher
References
Ingamells 1981 John Ingamells, The English Episcopal Portrait 1559-1835, 1981, p. 266, no. C. 17