Francis Russell

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A Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings at Wilton HouseHardcover, 30 September 2021

A Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings at Wilton House
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Print Length
292 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Archaeopress Publishing
Date Published
30 Sep 2021
ISBN-10
1789699843
ISBN-13
9781789699845

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The collection of pictures at Wilton has been celebrated since the seventeenth century; and its historic arrangement is uniquely well documented in a series of catalogues of which the first, issued in 1731, was the earliest such publication about any private collection in England. Of successive owners of the house, three made significant contributions: William, 4th Earl of Pembroke, who commissioned van Dyck's monumental portrait of his family that dominates the Double Cube Room he had created; his grandson, Thomas, 8th Earl of Pembroke who assembled what was in some respects a pioneering collection of old master pictures for the house; and his grandson, Henry, 10th Earl of Pembroke, patron of Reynolds and Wilson, among others. Such masterpieces as Lucas van Leyden's Card Players, Cesare da Sesto's Leda - long attributed to Leonardo - and Ribera's Democritus are matched by remarkable portrait drawings by Raphael and Holbein. These are complemented by a substantial deposit of family portraits and other pictures that attest to the tastes and interests of successive generations of the Herbert family.

Product Details

Author:
Francis Russell
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
GB
Date Published:
30 September 2021
ISBN-10:
1789699843
ISBN-13:
9781789699845
Language:
English
Location:
Oxford
Pages:
292
Weight:
5297.95 gm

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