Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection
Image Title:
Daniel Mytens. Henry Wriothesley, Third Earl of Southampton. Painting, after 1620
Image Details:
from a 4x5 color transparency
Source Creator:
Mytens, Daniel, 1590-1648, artist.
Source Title:
Henry Wriothesley, Third Earl of Southampton [graphic] / after Daniel Mytens
Source Created or Published:
After 1620.
Source Call Number:
FPb55
Digital Image File Name:
13263
Digital Image Type:
FSL collection
Hamnet Bib ID:
128731
Hamnet Holdings ID:
230238
HAMNET CATALOG RECORD:
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Creator (Hamnet):
Mytens, Daniel, 1590-1648, artist.
Title (Hamnet):
Henry Wriothesley, Third Earl of Southampton [graphic]. after Daniel Mytens.
Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
After 1620.
Physical Description (Hamnet):
1 painting on canvas : oil ; 114.3 x 91.5 cm.
Notes (Hamnet):
Exhibited: Detroit Institute of Arts and Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, "The World of Shakespeare, 1564-1616," 1964, nos. 13 and 14, as "attributed to Jan Antoniz Ravesteyn".
Notes (Hamnet):
First loaned to FSL by Paul Mellon in January 1960 and given on 22 May 1980.
Notes (Hamnet):
Inscribed at lower left in yellow: "Earl of Southampton".
Notes (Hamnet):
See curatorial file for condition information.
Notes (Hamnet):
This record contains unverified data from a re-keying contract and may contain incorrect or incomplete text. Please consult Curator for assistance.
Notes (Hamnet):
Title from Pressly.
Notes (Hamnet):
Versions: Roy Strong feels the original portrait "is probably the head and shoulders (on panel) in the collection of Earl Spencer, Althorp, which is signed by Mytens and dated 1618 (?)." Altogether, five head-and-shoulders versions are known; and half-length versions can be found in the National Portrait Gallery, London; in the Wingfield Digby Collection, Sherbourne Castle; and a small copy at Hodnet Hall, Shropshire. Three-quarter-length versions, like the Folger painting, are at Hardwick Hall; Gorhambury (Earl of Verulam); Master's Lodge, St. John's College, Cambridge; and Alex Wengraf Limited, London, this last work formerly in the collection of Earl Howe.
Citations (Hamnet):
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 189 (Plate 29)
Subject (Hamnet):
Portrait paintings. gmgpc
Subject (Hamnet):
Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, Earl of, 1573-1624 -- Portraits.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Fleming, John F., former owner.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Mellon, Paul, former owner.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Mellon, Paul, Mrs., former owner.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Mostyn, Henry, Mrs., former owner.
Provenance (Hamnet):
Provenance: The pair purchased in September 1950, by John F. Fleming, an associate of the Rosenbach Company, from a Mrs. Henry Mostyn, then living in Riverdale, Md., who was thought to be a direct descendant of the countess of Southampton; collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon.
Call Number (Hamnet):
FPb55

Henry Wriothesley, Third Earl of Southampton [graphic] / after Daniel Mytens