Sir Gilbert Talbot (c.1606-1695), FRS
Italian School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1635 - 1644
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1041 x 863 mm
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 996287
Caption
An inscription on this painting states that the sitter is ‘Gilbert Talbot, son of Charles Talbot’, but there appears to have been no such person. He is probably the son of Sharington I Talbot (d.1642), and younger brother of Sharington II Talbot (d.1677). This picture is strongly influenced by the portraits of Giorgione and Titian, particularly in the style of dress, the way in which he rests his arm upon a plinth, and the softened outlines. It is possibly a deliberate pastiche painted for the sitter when he was in Venice, at first as Secretary (1634-38), and then as Chargé d’Affaires (1638-44), for the Ambassador Extraordinary, Basil, Vt. Fielding, and after the latter’s departure, and finally as Resident Ambassador (Jan-June 1645)
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Sir Gilbert Talbot (c. 1606 - 1695), FRS, Italian School, c.1635/44(?). A half-length portrait, standing to right, resting with his right arm on a stone table or balustrade, wearing green cloak over white shirt, his left hand held across his chest.
Provenance
Given by Matilda Theresa Talbot (formerly Gilchrist-Clark) (1871 – 1958), who gave the Abbey, the village of Lacock and the rest of the estate to the National Trust in 1944, along with 96 of the family portraits and other pictures, in 1948
Credit line
Lacock Abbey, The Talbot Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Italian School, artist British (English) School, artist previously catalogued as manner of Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641), artist