Dyck, Anthony van, 1599-1641: 'Southampton; Somerset'

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 3010 ONM/2/116
  • Dates of Creation
      [1950s-2000s]
  • Language of Material
      English
  • Physical Description
      1 file (37 images; 6 letters; 3 postcards; 2 extracts; 1 treatment record; 1 accession record)

Scope and Content

Includes:

-letter from Emma Devapriam, Senior Curator of European Paintings, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, dated 4 January 1995, concerning a portrait of the Countess of Southampton

-extract: European Paintings before 1800 in the National Gallery of Victoria by Ursula Hoff, 1995

-letter from Christopher Brown, The National Gallery, London, dated 11 March 1985, concerning a draft letter to the Burlington Magazine about two versions of the portrait of Rachel de Ruvigny, Countess of Southampton at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

-letter from Martin Butlin, Keeper, Historic British Collection, Tate Gallery, London, dated 13 December 1988, concerning two versions of the painting: Portrait of the Countess of Southampton, at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

-treatment record for the painting: Rachel de Ruvigny, Countess of Southampton, Carl Villis, National Gallery of Victoria, Paintings Conservation Department, 28 July 1998

-letter from Alec Cobbe, Hatchlands Park, Surrey, dated 10 July 2001, concerning a portrait of the Countess of Southampton purchased at auction, 1 March 1991

-letter from Catharine MacLeod, The National Portrait Gallery, London, dated 27 March 1997, concerning a head and shoulders version of the portrait of the Countess of Southampton at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

-accession record of a Portrait of Baroness of Southampton, copy or after Anthony Van Dyck at the University of Illinois, USA

-letter to Sonia Deane, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, from David Scrase, Keeper, Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, dated 1 September 1999, concerning the comparison of paintings of the Countess of Southampton

-postcard from David Scrase, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, dated 2 September 1999, concerning observations on an x-ray of the Countess of Southampton painting at the Fitzwilliam

-two postcards from David Scrase, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, dated 22 May 1996, concerning the Fitzwilliam's version of Rachel de Ruvigny

-extract: Dublin Castle Art: the historical and contemporary collection by Roisin Kennedy, 1999, pp60-61

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