Inigo Jones, from "The Iconography"
Van Dyck's portrait of the English architect Inigo Jones hung in the Common Parlour at Houghton Hall, Owned first by the sitter, then his nephew the architect John Webb, Sir Robert Walpole acquired it after 1736. The painting was one of those sold to Catherine the Great in 1779 and is now in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
Artwork Details
- Title: Inigo Jones, from "The Iconography"
- Series/Portfolio: The Iconography
- Artist: After Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, Antwerp 1599–1641 London)
- Engraver: Robert van Voerst (Dutch, Deventer 1597–1636 London)
- Sitter: Inigo Jones (British, London 1573–1652 London)
- Date: 1636
- Medium: Engraving; fifth state
- Dimensions: sheet: 11 5/8 x 9 1/4 in. (29.5 x 23.5 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925
- Object Number: 25.62.31r(a)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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