Inigo Jones, from "The Iconography"

1636

Not on view

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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Aedes Walpolianae, or a Description of the Collection of Pictures at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the Seat of the Right Honorable Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford (Interleaved with Drawings by Isaac Ware for: The Plans, Elevations, and Sections of Chimney Pieces, and Celings of Houghton Hall in Norfolk...1735) ["The Walpole Album"], Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford British, Etching, engraving, pen and ink, brush and wash, watercolor — Aedes Walpolianae, or a Description of the Collection of Pictures at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the Seat of the Right Honorable Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford (Interleaved with Drawings by Isaac Ware for: The Plans, Elevations, and Sections of Chimney Pieces, and Celings of Houghton Hall in Norfolk...1735) ["The Walpole Album"]
Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford
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early 17th century

Frans Francken the Younger, from "The Iconography"

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n.d.

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