Portrait of a Military Commander on Horseback

Related Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)


Earl of Pembroke, Wilton House, United Kingdom

Object details

Title

Portrait of a Military Commander on Horseback

Technique and support

Oil on panel

Dimensions

33.5 x 24.8 cm

Artist

Related artist

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Most recent published attribution

Van Dyck [always]

Collection and provenance

Collection

Earl of Pembroke, Wilton House, United Kingdom

Provenance

possibly acquired by the 8th Earl of Pembroke (d. 1733);
first mentioned at Wilton in 1769

Literature

Literature

Kennedy 1769, p. 43, as Van Dyck;
Richardson 1774;
Smith 1831, no. 679;
Waagen 1838, vol. II, p. 287;
Waagen 1854, p. 154;
Guiffrey 1882, p. 265, no. 542;
London 1900, no. 132;
Glück 1931, p. 380;
Vey 1956, p. 201;
Wilton 1968, no. 171;
Strong 1972, ill. no. 49;
Müller Hofstede 1987-8, p. 168;
Larsen 1988, II, no. 832;
Washington 1990-1, no. 97 (J. S. Held);
Antwerp/London 1999, no. 80 (J. Egerton);
Barnes et al. 2004, pp. 380-1, no. III.178 (H. Vey);
Davies 2021a, p. 59, p. 63, n. 51;
Davies 2021e, ill. p. 60, p. 61.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Uncradled

Labels

1. ‘Little Ante 5’
2. ‘NW B2’
3. Partial label from an exhibition
4. Partial label with ‘43’ in ink
5. The Royal Academy of Arts 1999 Van Dyck exhibition
6. The National Gallery of Art Washington Van Dyck exhibition

Inscriptions

1. ‘Little Ante’ in pencil
2. ’17.’ In black ink

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

1

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 169
Dated: AD 1433 – 1601
Felled: After AD 1611 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/Baltic states

Planks of the same tree

-

Date of investigation

10 September 2020

Dendro report no.

UK034/2020

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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