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The Buccleuch portrait of Sir Nicholas Carew re-examined

02/2023 | 1439 | 165

Pages: 120-127

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Author:

Kimbriel, Christine Slottved (Kimbriel, Christine Slottved)

Subjects

artists:

after / Holbein, Hans the Younger, ca. 1497-1543 / Beuckelaer, Huybrecht

collectors and dealers:

Dudley, Robert, First Earl of Leicester, 1532?-1588 / Lumley, John, First Baron Lumley, ca. 1533-1609 / Dukes of Buccleuch

dates:

1550-1599

museums and institutions:

Hamilton Kerr Institute, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Great Britain

subjects:

Carew, Sir Nicholas (c.1496–1539) / Half-length portraits / Copies / Paintings / Drawings / Attributions / Provenance / Dating / Technical analysis / Infrared photography / Pigments

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Sir Nicholas Carew, by Hans Holbein the Younger. 1527. Black and coloured chalks on paper, 54.8 by 38.5 cm. (Kunstmuseum Basel).

Attributed works:

2. Sir Nicholas Carew, after Hans Holbein the Younger. c.1585–90. Oil on panel, 95.1 by 102.4 cm. (Collection of the Duke of Buccleuch; photograph Hamilton Kerr Institute).

Attributed works:

4. Digital overlay of Figs.1 and 2.

Attributed works:

5. Detail of Fig.2, showing the extreme bottom of the slashed skirt and the better-preserved blue paint with red glaze paint.

Attributed works:

6. Impresa of the Basel book printer Johann Froben, by Hans Holbein the Younger. c.1523. Tempera on unprimed canvas (Tüchlein), 44 by 31 cm. (Kunstmuseum Basel).

Attributed works:

7. The Prodigal Son, by Huybrecht Beuckelaer. 1563–84. Oil on canvas, 127.5 by 155.5 cm. (Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels).

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