John Michael Wright (1617 - 1694)
Lord Henry Howard, later 6th Duke of Norfolk (1628 – 1684), circa 1660
Oil on canvas
52 ¾ x 41 ½ in. (134 x 106 cm.)
Copyright: The Weiss Gallery 2019
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Provenance
The sitter; by descent through
The Barons Arundel of Wardour, Old and New Wardour Castle; to
Reginald J. Arthur Talbot-Arundel (1900 – 1953);
Reginald J. Richard Arundel (1931 – 2016), 10th Baron Talbot of Malahide, Wardour Castle; until
Christie’s, London, 8 June 1995, lot 2;
with The Weiss Gallery, 1995;
Private collection, USA, until 2019.
Exhibitions
Edinburgh, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, John Michael Wright - The King's Painter, 16 July – 19 September 1982, p.42 & 70. No. 15 (illus.).
Literature
E. Waterhouse, Painting in Britain 1530 - 1790, London 1953, p. 72, plate 66b.
G. Wilson, “Greenwich Armour in the Portraits of John Michael Wright” from The Connoisseur (February 1975), pp. 111 – 114 (illus.).
Advert, Apollo Magazine, April 1996.