Identifier: historicalportra00whea (find matches)
Title: Historical portraits; some notes on the painted portraits of celebrated characters of England, Scotland and Ireland
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin), 1838-1917
Subjects: Portrait painters
Publisher: London, G. Bell
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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was lent to the Tudor Exhibition, where wereshown three portraits of the unfortunate poetHenry Howard, Earl of Surrey : one by Holbeindated 1534, the same year that the painter didthat of Surreys father,- the Duke of Norfolk,which is preserved at Arundel ; another byGwillim Stretes, which was purchased in 1720 atthe sale of the Earl of Arundels gallery by SirRobert Walpole, who presented it to Edward,Duke of Norfolk ; the third was the strikingpicture in red, which hangs in the CommunicationGallery at Hampton Court, where are Mantegnas Triumphs of Julius Caesar. This used to beattributed to Holbein, but it is probably the workof Stretes, from whom Edward VI., in 1557,bought a piclure of the late Earl of Surrey at-tainted, wThich by the Councils commandment hadbeen fetched from the said Gwillims house. Many of the great Elizabethans whose portraitswere brought together in the Tudor Exhibitionought to be mentioned here, but there is onlyspace for a very casual notice of those of William
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ROBERT BURNS, BY ALEXANDER NASMVTH. I SCIENCE, LITERATURE, AND ART 227 Camden, and his pupil Ben Jonson. There weretwo portraits of Camden, one anonymous, lent bythe Baroness Burdett-Coutts, and one by MarcGheerardts from the Bodleian Gallery. LordSackville and the Baroness Burdett-Coutts eachsent a portrait of Ben Jonson, and Mr. S. EvelynShirley lent a miniature of the poet by IsaacOliver. There were several portraits of Shake-speare, but they were not of much authority. It is impossible to give anything like an adequateidea of the vast mass of portraits of celebratedauthors, and a few only can be mentioned as anindication of the riches of the country in thisrespect. Dobsons portrait of Sir John Suckling is in theAshmolean Museum, Oxford, and VandycksThomas Carew and Sir William Killigrew, in onepicture, at Windsor Castle. At the NationalPortrait Gallery there are two portraits of Dryden,one by Kneller, and the other attributed to JamesMaubert; also two of Cowley, one representing h

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