Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel, 4th Earl of Surrey and 1st Earl of Norfolk

Sitterback to top

• Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel, 4th Earl of Surrey and 1st Earl of Norfolk (1585-1646), Patron of art and collector. Sitter associated with 67 portraits.

Artistback to top

• Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Painter. Artist associated with 39 portraits, Sitter associated with 13 portraits.

This portraitback to top

This magnificent portrait of the Earl of Arundel shows him not only as a connoisseur - he acquired one of the most important seventeenth-centyry collections of painting and sculpture -but also with a certain braggadocio, as befitted his status as Earl Marshal. It was painted in 1629, when Rubens came to London as an emissary of Philip IV of Spain and was a study for a larger three-quarter length portrait of him (now in the Isabella Stewart gardner Museum, Boston). As a sketch it has an exceptional liveliness in its characterisation of a man with a worldly and perhaps slightly cynical mind.

Related worksback to top

• NPG D19370: Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel, 4th Earl of Surrey and 1st Earl of Norfolk (after)
• NPG D17391: Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel, 4th Earl of Surrey and 1st Earl of Norfolk ()

Linked publicationsback to top

• Audio Guide
• Cooper, John, Visitor's Guide, 2000, p. 31
• John Cooper, National Portrait Gallery Visitor's Guide, 2006, p. 31
• MacLeod, Catharine (preface, appreciation) Wilks, Timothy (introduction) Smuts, Malcolm (appreciation) MacGibbon, Rab (appendix), The Lost Prince: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart, 2012 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 18 October 2012 to 13 January 2013), p. 122
• Piper, David, The English Face, 1992, p. 72
• Piper, David, Catalogue of Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery, 1625-1714, 1963, p. 15
• Saumarez Smith, Charles, The National Portrait Gallery: An Illustrated Guide, 2000, p. 55
• Saumarez Smith, Charles, The National Portrait Gallery, 1997, p. 55
• Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 19

Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top

• The Lost Prince: The Life & Death of Henry Stuart (18 October 2012 - 13 January 2013)

Subject/Themeback to top

• On display at the Gallery