Perhaps Master Ralph Montagu (1679-89)

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John Riley (1646-91) and John Closterman (1660-1711), c. 1685

oil on canvas, 124.5 x 100.3cm

Ralph was the eldest son of Ralph Montagu, later 1st Duke of Montagu. Painted in the mid - 1680s, this portrait almost certainly illustrates the collaboration between the Enlishman Riley and his German partner and drapery-painter Closterman.

PROVENANCE presumably painted for Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu.