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Description: | The picture collection of today can be mostly attributed to the 10th Earl of Northumberland who was an active collector from the 1630s and well-placed to acquire pictures from royalist collections, including that of the 1st Duke of Buckingham. He was a great patron of Van Dyck and there are 20 such works at Petworth featuring family and friends, together with other works such as Lely's great portrait of The Younger Children of Charles I (1647), painted at Syon when the royal children were in Northumberland's custody and two Titians, including Man in a Plumed Hat. The 6th Duke of Somerset (1662-1748) was also a keen collector and acquired Jacob and Laban (1654), the first Claude to enter a British collection in addition to works by contemporary artists such as Dahl, Closterman and Wootton. The 2nd Earl of Egremont's picture collection is one of the best documented of the mid-18th century and reflects his taste for Italian, Dutch and French works. The 3rd Earl of Egremont was a patron to J.M.W. Turner and twenty of his oil paintings remain at Petworth together with works by Reynolds, Fuseli, Opie, Clint, Blake and Leslie. | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Petworth
West Sussex,
GU28 0AE | FAX: | 01798 342 963 | Telephone: | 01798 342 207 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:4711 | Go to resource |
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