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The portraits of Alice Spencer, Countess of Derby, and her family by Paul van Somer
04/2025 | 1465 | 167
Pages: 376-385
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Author:
David, Jessica (David, Jessica)
Author:
Town, Edward (Town, Edward)
Subjects
artists:
Somer, Paulus van, I, 1576-1621
buildings:
Deene Park, Northants / Assheton Collection, Downham Hall, Clitheroe, Lancashire / Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States
dates:
1600-1649
subjects:
Spencer, Alice (1559-1637)
subjects:
Stanley family / Egerton Family
subjects:
Family portraits / Portraits
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Portraits from the group at Deene Park, all here attributed to Paul van Somer (top row, left to right, 1a–1d; centre row, left to right, 1e–1h; bottom row, left to right, 1i–1l). 1617. Oil on panel, dimensions variable. (Deene Park, Northamptonshire; the Brudenell Estate).
Attributed works:
10. Portrait 1b from the group at Deene Park, here attributed to Paul van Somer. 1617. Oil on panel. (Deene Park, Northamptonshire; the Brudenell Estate).
Attributed works:
11. Elizabeth Hastings (née Stanley), Countess of Huntingdon, by John Payne after Paul van Somer. 1635. Engraving, 18.4 by 13.7 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
12. John Egerton. 1625. Oil on canvas, 119.4 by 90.2 cm. (Private collection; photograph the authors).
Attributed works:
13. Called Thomas Egerton, possibly Charles Egerton. 1625. Oil on canvas, 109.2 by 78.7 cm. (Private collection; photograph the authors).
Attributed works:
14. Alice Egerton. 1625. Oil on canvas, 109.2 by 78.7 cm. (Private collection; photograph the authors).
Attributed works:
15. Anne Egerton. 1625. Oil on canvas, 119.4 by 90.2 cm. (Private collection; photograph the authors).
Attributed works:
16. Called Vere Egerton but here called an unknown woman, by Paul van Somer. c.1617. Oil on canvas, 216.5 by 129.5 cm. (National Trust, Dunham Massey).
Attributed works:
17. Unknown child, possibly Thomas Egerton. 1625. Oil on canvas, 103.5 by 82.6 cm. (Buccleuch Collection at Boughton House, Northamptonshire).
Attributed works:
2. Portrait of a countess repainted with the head of Cecilia Egerton. c.1610 with later intervention. Oil on canvas, 194.3 by 128.3 cm. (Buccleuch Collection at Boughton House, Northamptonshire; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
3. Portrait 1d from the group at Deene Park, here attributed to Paul van Somer. 1617. Oil on panel. (Deene Park, Northamptonshire; the Brudenell Estate).
Attributed works:
4. Portrait of a girl here identified as Cecilia Egerton, by Paul van Somer. 1617. Oil on panel, 65.4 by 50.8 cm. (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).
Attributed works:
5. Diana Cecil, Countess of Oxford and Elgin, after Paul van Somer. c.1632. Oil on panel. (Buccleuch Collection at Boughton House, Northamptonshire; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
6. Lady Diana Cecil, Countess of Oxford, by Paul van Somer. 1618. Oil on panel, 66 by 54.5 cm. (Present location unknown).
Attributed works:
7. Alice Spencer, Countess of Derby (1559–1637), after Paul van Somer. c.1635. Engraving, 19.3 by 12.3 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
8. Alice Spencer, Countess of Derby, by Paul van Somer. 1617. Oil on panel, 67.5 by 59 cm. (Deene Park, Northamptonshire).
Attributed works:
9. Portrait of a woman, possibly Vere Egerton, by Paul van Somer. 1617. Oil on panel, 88.9 by 66 cm. (Paine Art Center and Gardens, Oshkosh).
Article
A serendipitous discovery: a lost Italian portrait from Horace Walpole’s miniature cabinet
04/2025 | 1465 | 167
Pages: 368-375
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Editor:
Concin, Adriana (Concin, Adriana)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Walpole, Horace, Fourth Earl of Orford, 1717-1797
collectors and dealers:
Cappello family
dates:
1550-1599
museums and institutions:
Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Fontana, Lavinia
subjects:
Portraits / Miniatures (paintings)
subjects:
Cappello, Bianca
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. The Walpole miniature cabinet, designed by Horace Walpole in collaboration with William Kent. 1873. Padouk veneered onto a pine carcase and set with carved ivory plaques, figures and mounts, 152.4 by 91.5 by 21.6 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
10. Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, by Lavinia Fontana. 1599. Oil on canvas, 256 by 325 cm. (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin).
Attributed works:
11. Detail of Fig.10.
Attributed works:
12. Fig.4, shown at actual size.
Attributed works:
2. Portrait after a miniature once in Horace Walpole’s collection at Strawberry Hill, by George Perfect Harding. c.1801–53. Watercolour on paper, 16.3 by 12.8 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
3. Portrait of Bianca Cappello, after Jacopo Ligozzi. Pencil and watercolour on paper, 33.7 by 19.8 cm. (Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Farmington).
Attributed works:
4. Portrait of a noblewoman, here attributed to Lavinia Fontana. c.1580–90. Oil on copper, 5.5 by 4.75 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
5. Directions for [ar]ranging the pictures in the Rosewood Cabinet in the Tribune, by Horace Walpole. c.1784. Pen and ink with pencil, 32.6 by 25.5 cm. (London Metropolitan Archives).
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6. The Tribune at Strawberry Hill, by John Carter. 1789. Watercolour on paper, 59.2 by 49.5 cm. (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven.)
Attributed works:
7. Disposition of the miniatures in the Rosewood Cabinet in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill, by John Carter. c.1784. Watercolour on paper, 32.6 by 27.5 cm. (From Horace Walpole’s copy of ‘A Description of the Villa of Mr Horace Walpole [. . .]’, London c.1784, fol.33 30; Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Farmington).
Attributed works:
8. Detail of Fig.7, showing the illustration of Fig.4 in Walpole’s miniature cabinet.
Attributed works:
9. Portrait of Bianca Cappello with her son Antonio, Alessandro Allori. c.1580. Oil on canvas, 128.4 by 100.5 cm. (Dallas Museum of Art).
Article
‘Two boys with a bladder’ in the J. Paul Getty Museum and Joseph Wright of Derby’s early candlelights
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 242–57
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Author:
Siemon, Julia (Siemon, Julia)
Subjects
artists:
Wright of Derby, Joseph, painter, 1734-1797
dates:
1760-1769
museums and institutions:
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United States
subjects:
Candlelight paintings / British painting / Dating / Early works / Pendants (companion pieces) / Exhibitions / Collections, Private / Portraits / Children
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Two boys with a bladder, by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1767. Oil on canvas, 92.7 by 73 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
Attributed works:
10. Self-portrait, by Joseph Wright of Derby. c.1765–68. Oil on canvas, 70.2 by 58.7 cm. (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne).
Attributed works:
11. Portrait of a man, known as the ‘Indian Captain’, by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1767. Oil on canvas, 229.2 by 138.4 cm. (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).
Attributed works:
12. Self-portrait in a fur cap, by Joseph Wright of Derby. c.1765–68. Grisaille on blue-grey laid paper, 42.5 by 29.5 cm. (Art Institute of Chicago; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
13. Portrait of a gentleman in a red fur-trimmed coat, frogged waistcoat and a white turban, by Joseph Wright of Derby. Late 1760s. Oil on canvas, 63.5 by 53.5 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
14. Girl reading with a man looking over her shoulder, by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1768. Oil on canvas, 91.4 by 71.1 cm. (Private collection; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
15. Two boys fighting over a bladder, by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1768. Oil on canvas, 91.4 by 71.1 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
16. Study of a girl in a turban with pompom and frilled collar, by Joseph Wright of Derby. c.1767. Black and white chalk and stump on grey paper, 43.8 by 29.2 cm. (Private collection; photograph Lucas Olivet).
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17. Study of a boy reading, by Joseph Wright of Derby. c.1766. Grisaille pastel with touches of black chalk on blue paper, 48 by 28 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
Attributed works:
18. An experiment on a bird in the air pump, by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1768. Oil on canvas, 76.2 by 63.5 (Derby Museum and Art Gallery).
Attributed works:
2. Three persons viewing the Gladiator by candle-light, by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1765. Oil on canvas, 102.5 by 122 cm. (Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
3. A philosopher giving that lecture on the orrery, in which a lamp is put in place of the sun, by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1766. Oil on canvas, 147.3 by 203.2 cm. (Derby Museum and Art Gallery; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
4. An experiment on a bird in the air pump, by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1768. Oil on canvas, 183 by 244 cm. (National Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
5. An academy by lamplight, by Joseph Wright of Derby. Late 1760s. Oil on canvas, 127 by 101.6 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
6. An academy by lamplight, by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1769. Oil on canvas, 127 by 101 cm. (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
7. Hermit, by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1769. Oil on canvas, 128.2 by 102.9 cm. (Derby Museum and Art Gallery; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
8. Two girls dressing a kitten by candlelight, by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1767. Oil on canvas, 90.8 by 72.4 cm. (Kenwood House, London; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
9. Two boys by candlelight, blowing a bladder, by Joseph Wright of Derby and studio. c.1767–73. Oil on canvas, 91.4 by 72.1 cm. (Huntington Library and Art Museum, San Marino).
Article
A portrait of an unknown woman by Titian
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 212–17
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Author:
Humfrey, Peter (Humfrey, Peter)
Author:
Joannides, Paul (Joannides, Paul; J., P.; Joannides, P. E. A.)
Subjects
artists:
Titian / Veronese, Paolo
dates:
1550-1559
museums and institutions:
Hamilton Kerr Institute, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Great Britain
subjects:
Attributions / Attributions, former / Portraits / Dating / Costume / Conservation / Pentimenti / Venetian art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Portrait of a woman in a green dress, by Titian. c.1550–55(?). Oil on canvas, 86 by 70.4 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
2. Detail of the back of the canvas of Fig.1.
Attributed works:
3. X-radiograph of Fig.1.
Attributed works:
4. Portrait of a woman, by Paolo Veronese. c.1555. Oil on canvas, 106 by 87 cm. (Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai; photograph Hugo Maertens).
Attributed works:
5. Portrait of a woman. Venice. c.1555(?). Oil on canvas, 101 by 77 cm. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Béziers).
Short Notice
Observations about the abandoned portrait beneath Gainsborough’s ‘Blue boy’
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 261–265
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Author:
O'Connell, Christina Milton (O'Connell, Christina Milton)
Subjects
artists:
Gainsborough, Thomas
works:
British art / Technical analysis / Scientific analysis / Infrared photography / Portraits / Full-length portraits
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Digital X-radiograph of Fig.2, captured through all layers of the painting, including the wooden auxiliary support.
Attributed works:
2. Blue boy (after treatment), by Thomas Gainsborough. c.1770. Oil on canvas, 177.8 by 112.1 cm. (Huntington Library and Art Museum, San Marino).
Attributed works:
3. John Joshua Kirby, by Thomas Gainsborough. c.1754–56. Oil on canvas, 41.9 by 29.2 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
4. Infra-red reflectography of Fig.2, showing the preliminary lines of the abandoned portrait, including the contours of the face, coat, and shoulders. A dark layer of paint was applied over the abandoned portrait, slightly obscuring the legibility of the details in IRR.
Attributed works:
5. Detail of Fig.1.
Attributed works:
6. Detail of Fig.1, showing additional details of the abandoned portrait’s face.
Attributed works:
7. Cross-section of Fig.2, taken at the top fold-over edge contains, from bottom to top: the off-white double ground layer; a paint layer from the abandoned portrait’s face; and the dark layer of paint that Gainsborough applied over the abandoned portrait followed by the thinly applied paint of the sky for the Blue boy composition.
Book Review
The Embedded Portrait: Giotto, Giottino, Angelico
12/2024 | 1461 | 166
Pages: 1278–9
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Reviewer:
Bokody, Péter (Bokody, Péter)
Subjects
subjects:
Early Italian art / Religious art / Portraits / Donors
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Embedded Portrait: Giotto, Giottino, Angelico By Christopher S. Wood. 376 pp. incl. 125 col. ills. (Princeton University Press, 2023), £55. ISBN 978–0–691–24426–6. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
2. Lamentation over the body of Christ, by Giottino. After 1363. Tempera on panel, 135 by 195 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
Book Review
Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance
12/2024 | 1461 | 166
Pages: 1267–70
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Reviewer:
Schmitter, Monika (Schmitter, Monika)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
subjects:
Portraits / covers (paintings) / Renaissance art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance Edited by Alison Manges Nogueira. 232 pp. incl. 203 col. ills. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2024), £40. ISBN 978–15–883–9775–1. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Portrait cover with an allegory, by Lorenzo Lotto. c.1505. Oil on panel, 42.9 by 33.7 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Attributed works:
5. Portrait cover with an allegory, by Lorenzo Lotto. 1505. Oil on panel, 56.2 by 42.2 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Attributed works:
6. Triumph of love, by Titian. c.1543–46. Oil on canvas, diameter 88.3 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Short Notice
A newly discovered Anguissola portrait
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 937-41
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Shorter Notice by:
Lugli, Emanuele (Lugli, Emanuele)
Subjects
artists:
Anguissola, Sofonisba
artists:
Anguissola, Lucia
dates:
1550-1559
museums and institutions:
Museo d'Arte della Città di Ravenna, Ravenna, Italy
subjects:
Italian art / Portraits / Sitters / Roundels
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Portrait of a man, here attributed to Sofonisba or Lucia Anguissola, 1550s. Oil on panel, diameter 16 cm. (Museo d’arte, Ravenna).
Attributed works:
10. Portrait of the artist’s sister, Minerva Anguissola, by Sofonisba Anguissola. c.1564. Oil on canvas, 85 by 66 cm. (Milwaukee Art Museum).
Attributed works:
11. Portrait of Pietro Manna, by Lucia Anguissola. 1557. Oil on canvas, 96 by 76 cm. (© Photographic Archive Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
Attributed works:
12. St John the Evangelist, by Monogrammist FVB. c.1480–1500. Tempera on panel, 9.5 by 18 cm. (Courtesy Musei Civici, Pavia).
Attributed works:
2. Reverse of Fig.1.
Attributed works:
3. Self-portrait, by Sofonisba Anguissola. 1556 or 1558. Oil on panel, diameter 13 cm. (Frits Lugt Collection, Paris).
Attributed works:
4. Portrait of Europa Anguissola, by Lucia Anguissola. c.1558. Oil on panel, diameter 14.6 cm. (Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia).
Attributed works:
5. Portrait of a lady, by Sofonisba Anguissola. Oil on walnut panel, diameter 10.2 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; © Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali e per il turismo).
Attributed works:
6. Reverse of Fig.5.
Attributed works:
7. Reverse of Fig.4. (© Archivio Fotografico dei Musei Civici di Brescia – Fotostudio Rapuzzi).
Attributed works:
8. Sestertius of Maximinus. Roman, c.236–37 CE. Brass, diameter 2 cm. (CCØ Paris Musées / Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris).
Attributed works:
9. Reverse of Fig.8.
Article
Two unpublished portraits by Lavinia Fontana
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 893-99
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Author:
Denunzio, Antonio Ernesto (Denunzio, Antonio Ernesto)
Subjects
artists:
Fontana, Lavinia / Fontana, Prospero
dates:
1550-1599
patrons:
Sigonio, Carlo / Pendasio, Federico
places:
Bologna / Naples
subjects:
Italian art / Portraits / scholars / Sitters / discoveries
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Self-portrait in the studio, by Lavinia Fontana. 1579. Oil on canvas, diameter 15.7 cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence; photo Scala, Florence; courtesy Ministero della Cultura).
Attributed works:
2. Carlo Sigonio, by Lavinia Fontana. 1581. Oil on canvas, 87 by 70 cm. (Private collection; photograph Archivio dell’Arte; Luciano and Marco Pedicini).
Attributed works:
3. Federico Pendasio, by Lavinia Fontana. 1581. Oil on canvas, 87 by 70 cm. (Private collection; photograph Archivio dell’Arte; Luciano and Marco Pedicini).
Attributed works:
4. Carlo Sigonio, by Lavinia Fontana. 1578. Oil on canvas, 122 by 95 cm. (Museo Civico, Modena).
Attributed works:
5. Federico Pendasio, copy after Lavinia Fontana. First quarter of the 17th century. Oil on canvas, 65 by 51cm. (Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
6. Portrait of a scholar, by Lavinia Fontana. 1581. Oil on canvas, 87 by 72 cm. (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna).
Article
Renaissance exhibitions in Paris
06/2024 | 1455 | 166
Pages: 612–619
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Author:
Herman, Nicholas (Herman, Nicholas)
Subjects
artists:
Pisanello / Fouquet, Jean, ca. 1415-1481 / Quarton, Enguerrand / Eyck, Barthélemy d' / Perugino, Pietro / Zoppo, Marco
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France / Musée de Cluny (Musée National du Moyen Âge), Paris, France
subjects:
Renaissance art / Humanism / Illuminated manuscripts / Manuscripts / Bookbindings / Books / Prints / Coins / Medals / Portraits / Paintings / Bronzes / Sculpture / Collections / Charles VII, King of France, 1403-1461
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Invention of the Renaissance: the Humanist, the Prince and the Artist, Bibliothèque national de France, 20 February16 June 2024. Les arts en France sous Charles VII, Musée de Cluny – Musée national du Moyen Âge, 12 March–16 June 2024. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Jacopo Antonio Marcello, attributed to Jacopo Bellini. 1453. Tempera on parchment, 18.7 by 13 cm. (Bibliothèque national de France, Paris, MS 940, fol.38v).
Attributed works:
2. Frontispiece. (From Giovanni Michele Nagonio: De laudibus Galliae, Rome c.1500.) Ink and tempera on parchment, 27 by 16 cm. (Bibliothèque national de France, Paris, MS latin 8132, fols.8v–9r).
Attributed works:
3. St John on Patmos from the Hours of Frederick III, by Jean Bourdichon, Giovanni Todeschino and the Master of Claude de France. 1501–02. Tempera on parchment, 24.5 by 15.5 cm. (Bibliothèque national de France, Paris, MS latin 10532, p.62).
Attributed works:
4. Manuscript binding, by Étienne Roffet. c.1542–43. Gilt-tooled leather, 33.5 by 23 cm. (Bibliothèque national de France, Paris, MS latin 6866, upper cover).
Attributed works:
5. So-called dais of Charles VII, perhaps after a design by Jacob de Littemont. c.1430–40. Wool and silk, 292 by 285 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
6. Supplicant in prayer, excised leaf of the Collins Hours, by the Master of the Collins Hours. c.1445–50. Tempera and ink on parchment, 18.5 by 12.5 cm. (Musée de Cluny–Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris, MS Cl.23945).
Attributed works:
7. Detail of the central panel of the Aix Triptych showing the books on the Virgin’s lectern, by Barthélemy d’Eyck. 1443–44. Oil on panel. (Sainte-Madeleine, Aix-en-Provence; photograph the author).
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