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Van Dyck (1599 was one of the most significant painters to work within the British Isles. In the centuries following his death he had a air max one far greater influence on portraiture there than any other artist. The nike tn pas cher forms of portrait that he introduced during the years that he worked for the Stuart king Charles I and members of his Court were to be an inspiration to numerous later artists, including Sir Peter Lely, Thomas Gainsborough, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Richard Parkes Bonington and John Singer Sargent. Yet until 2002 Tate scarpe hogan outlet Robin Chamorot possessed only a single work by this most influential of masters, the full length portrait of an unknown lady thought to be a member of the Spencer Family, which had been acquired in 1977. Although delightful, this work was not in tip top condition.

Sir Anthony Van Dyck

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Tate acquisition of the Portrait of Sir William Killigrew came in part through the in lieu scheme, under which pre eminent works of art and important heritage objects can be transferred into public ownership in payment of inheritance tax. The story might have ended there, but for the sudden unexpected appearance in an auction in January 2003 in New York of the companion piece to this picture, Van Dyck portrait of Sir William wife, Lady Mary Killigrew. This picture had been known to be in a private collection somewhere in the USA, but exactly where had been unclear. Through an exceptional combination of circumstances, it became possible for Tate to bid for it, and thus to acquire it, too.

Sir Anthony Van Dyck

Portrait of Mary Hill, Lady Killigrew 1638

support: 1065 x 833 mm

frame: 1274 x 1039 x 85 mm

Purchased with assistance from the Art Fund, Tate Members and the bequest of Alice Cooper Creed 2003

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Thus the two portraits by Van Dyck, both dated 1638, closely related in size and clearly conceived as a pair, are re united at last within the Tate collection. We do not know how long they have been apart, but at the scarpe hogan NSD Powerball Supernova Neon PRO Blue White Leds KB188 LBWC Super N very least it has been a century and a nike tn officiel half. Certainly by the early nineteenth century, Sir William portrait was owned by the Carpenter family, who sold it at auction in 1853. At the same date, Lady Mary portrait was almost definitely with the Grey family, who were mulberry uk Earls of Stamford. During the nineteenth century, the 7th Earl kept it at the family house at Enville in Staffordshire, but research is currently under way to establish whether it was previously at the family original residence, Dunham Massey (now a National Trust property).

Like many other artists, Van Dyck painted a number of matching husband and wife portraits, particularly when he was escarpin louboutin living and working in Antwerp. One English pair are his early full lengths of Sir Robert and Lady Shirley of 1622, thought to have been painted in Rome (Petworth House). It is thought, however, that the Killigrews, now at Tate, may be the only example from Van Dyck English period of a (non royal) pendant pair in a British public museum.

Over the previous century, it had not been unusual for artists in Britain to receive commissions to produce such paired portraits. Hans Holbein II, who worked for Henry VIII hogan outlet and his court during the years 1527 and 1534 painted a number, including those of Sir Henry and Lady Guildford, 1527 (The Royal Collection and the Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri), and Dr William and Margaret, Lady Butts (Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum, Boston).

Tate own collection includes the two portraits of the Suffolk landowner Sir Thomas Kytson and his wife Lady Kytson for which the smart London painter George Gower was paid in 1573 (Tate N06090 and N06091). The Kytsons portraits may not, in fact, have been designed as a pendant pair for, in both images, the sitter faces to the viewer left, whereas it was customary, in companion portraits, for the sitters to be positioned in complementary directions. Almost invariably as in the case of the Killigrews the man is placed in the position of higher status, that is, on the viewer left, a tn pas cher practice thought to derive from the rules of heraldry.

The Killigrews portraits make up a true pair, he to our left, she to our right, with the outward arm of each curving gracefully inwards and low, in near mirror images of one another. Behind each, in the distance, are beautifully depicted complementary landscapes. Van Dyck could be an air jordan pas cher homme accomplished landscape painter as we know from the handful of remarkable watercolour sketches and drawings in ink that he made of English terrain (including that around Rye in Sussex) such as the Landscape with Trees and Ships in the Barber Institute of Fine Art, Birmingham. Here he has translated the freshness of such impressions into paint.

William Killigrew was descended from an old Cornish family, whose heraldic arms included a double headed eagle on a white background (officially described as a field Argent, an imperial eagle with two necks, within a bordure Bezante Sable William was baptised on 28 May 1606 in the parish church of Hanworth, Middlesex, where his parents had a country residence. He was the eldest of the twelve children of Sir Robert Killigrew and his wife Mary Woodhouse, nine of whom were to live to adulthood. Hanworth was conveniently placed for the royal palace of Hampton Court, and Sir Robert was an ambitious and energetic courtier on the rise, having been knighted by James I in 1603. He saw to it that all his children received a good education, and most of his daughters were to hold significant court escarpin louboutin pas cher positions. Anne (1607 for instance, was to become dresser to Charles I French Queen, Henrietta Maria. Her marriage in 1627 to George Kirke, one of Charles gentlemen of the robes, was attended by the monarch himself. Elizabeth Killigrew (1622 on the other hand, a maid of honour to Henrietta Maria, was to marry the future 1st Viscount Shannon, and in 1652 became the mistress of Charles II, bearing him a daughter called Charlotte Jemima Henrietta Maria (a good string of Stuart family names, emphasising the infant parentage!).

William younger brother Thomas (1612 to whom we shall return later, was to become the best known of all the siblings, as a canada goose sale outlet minor courtier and dramatist bottes louboutin and, principally, as a theatrical manager after 1660. Another brother, Henry (1613 entered the Church and became chaplain to the Duke of York the future king air jordan James II and Master of the Savoy Hospital in London.

William himself may have been educated tiffany outlet online at Thomas Farnaby pioneering school in the City of London, near his parents London residence in Lothbury. Certainly, in July 1623 he entered St John College, Oxford as a gentleman commoner, but did not stay long, for in April 1624 he was given a pass to travel abroad, with his cousin Maurice Berkeley and three servants. William thus set off on the Jacobean version of a Tour although his precise itinerary is not known. It is however, probable that he visited the Netherlands, where his younger brother Charles had a position as a page to the Prince of Orange and where the Killigrews had a well placed friend, the diplomat and scholar, Constantijn Huyghens.

By May 1626, William was back in England, where he mulberry outlet online was knighted by Charles I. And it is likely that at about this time, or shortly before, he was married to Mary Hill, daughter of John Hill of Honiley in Warwickshire. Thus William would have been aged around twenty at the time of wellensteyn online shop his marriage; Mary age at this time is unknown, scarpe hogan outlet as her date of birth is not recorded.

Mary and William were to have seven children. Their eldest son, Robert, was to be knighted at Breda in 1650 by the exiled Charles II; he spent many years as a soldier in the Netherlands. Another son, William, also had a military career; Henry died before his father. The couple eldest daughter, Mary, was to marry a Dutch aristocrat, Frederick Nassau de Zuylestein, and to attend Charles I daughter Mary, Princess of Orange at the Hague in the Netherlands. Elizabeth (died 1677) was to marry the future 6th Earl of Lincoln, and subsequently became a dresser to Charles II queen, Catherine of Braganza. The third daughter, Susan (born 1629) married the 2nd Earl of Barrymore, and was to attend queen Henrietta Maria in her Civil War exile. A fourth daughter, Cecilia, was born in 1635, but lived only two months. So, it is clear that the children of Sir William and Lady Killigrew continued the family tradition of court service.

At around the time nike air max pas cher of his marriage, William was appointed a Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber to Charles I. At court, he moved in the circles of those who participated in the lavish entertainments called that mingled drama, music, dance and rich costumes and elaborate settings within the ideals of platonic love imported by the French born Henrietta Maria. Although William own hogan outlet plays were not performed or published until after the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, their format and sentiments echo those of the court dramas created for Henrietta Maria in the late 1620s and 1630s.

In 1628, Sir William was elected Member of Parliament for both Newport and Penryn in Cornwall although he subsequently waived his adoption for the former borough. From 1633 to 1635, he was Governor of Pendennis Castle, a post previously held by his father, who had died in 1633. He also involved himself in his father project of draining fen lands the Lindsey level in Lincolnshire. This project was ultimately to exhaust his economic resources, and meant that he was to be financially hard pressed for much of the rest of his life.

We know nothing of the circumstances in which the portraits of Sir William and his wife were commissioned or executed. What we do know is that the two works bear inscriptions thought to be contemporary, or nearly contemporary identifying the sitters, stating that they were painted by Van Dyck and with the date 1638. Similar inscriptions and the same date are also found on pictures of other members of the Killigrew family.