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Description: | An inscription on the back of the painting identifies the sitter as the Marquess Accelinis de Gandulphis; the artist is unknown, but the work has been dated on the grounds of dress to about 1680-90. The sitter, turned to the right, but looking straight out at the viewer, wears a long white lace cravat over armour, he has shoulder-length black curly hair, a drooping moustache and full face. The painting was purchased and cut to size to fill the circular frame, designed by William Kent as part of the fitted wall decoration of the Bed Chamber beside the Green Velvet Room that according to inventories of about 1740 originally held a portrait of Robert Boyle, a descendent of Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington. The frame was presumably left empty when the Chiswick paintings were removed to Chatsworth in 1892. | Subjects: | portrait (Marquess Accelinis de Gandulphis) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8730... | Go to resource |
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