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Portrait of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). by Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641). Half length, facing the spectator, in black doublet and white lace collar, his right hand holding his loose cloak - on panel 7.75 in. x 6.5 in. Provenance: Sir Peter lely; sale, 18th April 1682 "Item. Thirty -Seven Pictures done in Grisaille done by Vandike after the life of the most eminent men in his time, from which the plates were graven" (ii125 to Ralph, 1st Duke of Montagu) Exhibited: London, Agnew's, Sir Anthony van Dyck, 7th. Nov. - 7th. Dec. 1968, no. 31, illus. Literature: E. Larsen, L'opera completa de Van Dyck,
1980,under no.541 Engraved: by P. Pontius. A copy is in the Metropolis Museum of Art, New York (W.A. Liedtke, Flemish Paintings in the Metropolis Museum of Art, 1984, I pp.91 - 3 and pl. 38; see this also for Liedtke's support of the attribution of the main Boughton set of sketches to van Dyck, and for a discussion of the scholarly views on this attribution.
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