William, Lord Cavendish, Later Second Earl of Devonshire (1591–1628), and His Son William, Later Third Earl of Devonshire (1617–1684)

Artist Paulus van Somer I Flemish, 1576–1621/22, active in London

Date1619

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions51 1/2 x 41 1/2 in. (130.8 x 105.4 cm)
Frame: 57 1/2 x 47 1/8 x 2 1/4 in. (146.1 x 119.7 x 5.7 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of John Motley Morehead

Object numberG.58.4.1

On View

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ProvenanceProbably commissioned by Lord and Lady Cavendish; created London, 1619; by descent to George William James Chandos Brudenell-Bruce (1873–1961), 6th Marquess of Ailesbury, Tottenham House, Wiltshire, England, before 1932; to his nephew Hector Bruce Binney, ca. 1946; [Sotheby’s, London, February 1, 1956, no. 139]; [D. H. Cevat, London]; John Motley Morehead III (1870–1965), Rye, NY; given to NCMA, 1958.Published ReferencesEllis Waterhouse, Painting in Britain, 1530 to 1790 (Baltimore, 1953), 34.

W. R. Valentiner, "Two Portraits of the Jacobean Period," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin I, nos. 4-5 (Winter 1957-Spring 1958), 8-12, illus. (b-w) 10.

Masterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958 (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1959), cat. no. 95, illus. (b-w) 158, fig. 95.

Carolina Charter Tercentenary Exhibition (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1963), cat. no. 83a, illus. (b-w).

British Painting to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings, Vol. 2, 2nd ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1969), cat. no. 111, illus. (b-w).

The Mint Museum of Art Presents British Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue) (Charlotte: Mint Museum of Art, 1973), cat. no. 3, illus. (b-w).

Ellis Waterhouse, The Dictionary of 16th and 17th Century British Painters (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collector's Club, 1988), illus. (b-w) 277.

Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 70, illus. (color) 340.

David Steel and Dennis P. Weller, entry for William, Lord Cavendish, Later Second Earl of Devonshire (1591-1628), and His Son, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 328-29, illus. (color) 330.

Perry Hurt, “Uncovering Late Renaissance British Portraits at the NCMA: The Scott Project,” in North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Winter 2014), noted 18.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Masterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958," April 6-May 7, 1959, cat. no. 95, illus. (b-w).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Carolina Charter Tercentenary Exhibition,” March 23-April 28, 1963, cat. no. 83, illus.

Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum of Art, "The Mint Museum of Art Presents British Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," September 16-December 30, 1973, cat. no. 2, illus. (b-w).

“British Portraits to 1900,” North Carolina Museum of Art Traveling Exhibition.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Together Forever: Pendant Portraits from the Permanent Collection," April 18-September 26, 1999. (Closing date extended to October 10, 1999.)

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “History and Mystery: Discoveries in the NCMA British Collection,” August 6, 2016–June 25, 2017. Object Rights Statement

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