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Portrait of Ambrogio Spinola, Marquùs de Balbases (1569-1630). by Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641). Commander in Chief of the Spanish Armies in the Netherlands, half length, facing the spectator in armour with white ruff, wearing the Jewel and Order of The Golden Fleece, holding a baton in his right hand - on panel 9.0 in. x 6.75 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). Engraved: by L. Vorsterman (Wibiral, 92).
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