Early Stuart Portraits Catalogue
Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds ('Lord Danby') (1631-1712), Statesman
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c.1660
Miniature by Samuel Cooper, bust-length oval in armour with sash, long cravat and wig, the frame cartouche is engraved: Thos. Osborne Earl of Danby. Duke of Buccleuch (S. Lloyd, Portrait Miniatures in the collection of the Duke of Buccleuch, 1996, p 82 no.40).
c.1674-76
Painting by Peter Lely, whole-length in Parliamentary robes (without Garter); compared with NPG 1472, the head is identical but the feet and hands are differently disposed. Christie’s, 1 December 2000, lot 5, from the Duke of Leeds (who had lent it to the Government Art Collection from 1930, O/319/109). The head engr. A. Blooteling (F. W. H. Hollstein, Dutch & Flemish Etchings Engravings and Woodcuts 1450-1700, 36) and a drawing by G. P. Harding, inscribed ‘Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby/from the engraving by Blooteling’, was sold Sotheby’s, 30 January 1991, part lot 22.
c.1684-85
Painting attributed to Kneller, three-quarter length seated, with wand and Garter robes. Government Art Collection (9), presented by Lord Godolphin 1833 (J. D. Stewart, Godfrey Kneller, 1983, no.423 as Kneller c.1685; in 1892 Scharf had misattributed it to Greenhill; Sir George Scharf’s Trustees’ sketch books 37:79). Has also been attributed to Claret. A copy in a private collection 2006; a version exh. Second Exhibition of National Portraits, South Kensington, 1867, no.50, lent by the Earl of Derby, was then in poor condition.
A half-length by ‘Kneller’ was lent by the Duke of Leeds to the Government Art Collection in 1930 (O/331/37).
On 29 April 1682 Charles Bertie told his niece, the Countess of Rutland, that he had not heard ‘Mr Clarett could do anything at the outcry with your commission, so that I presume those peeces were disposed of. If my painter come out of the country I will endeavour to get your Ladyship an originall of my Lord of Danby ...’; on 29 May H. E. [sic] Claret in London told Roger Herbert at Belvoir: ‘My Lady commanded me to do a picture of Lord Danby’ – who was then in the Tower of London (HMC Belvoir Castle, II, 1889, pp 71, 74).
c.1685-87
Painting by Godfrey Kneller, whole-length standing, holding wand, in Garter robes, inscribed with identity. Holkham (J. D. Stewart, Godfrey Kneller, 1983, no.424, p 193 recording a payment of £40 paid to Kneller from Lord Danby in 1687). Exhibited Age of Charles II, RA, 1960, no.99. A version at Penrhyn (National Trust).
1694-96
Statue by John van der Stein (Vanderstaine). Physic Gardens, Oxford.
1694-99
Drawing by Robert White, engr. R. White (R. White ad Vivum delin: et sculpsit) as Duke of Leeds (cr. 1694) and Lord Lieutenant of the three Ridings of Yorkshire, a post relinquished in 1699. British Museum (G.g.1-476; E. Croft-Murray & P. Hulton, British Museum, Catalogue of British Drawings: XVI and XVII centuries, I, pp 540-41, White, no.2). An example of White’s engraving is NPG 631.
Doubtful Portraits
Miniature by Nicolas Dixon (fl. 1667-1708), bust-length oval, short lace cravat. Lord Beauchamp. Exhibited British Portrait Miniatures, Edinburgh, 1965, no.144.
Painting by Godfrey Kneller 1687, three-quarter length seated, wearing brown, signed and dated. London Art market 2005.
This extended catalogue entry is by John Ingamells, one of a limited number of entries drafted in 2010 for the incomplete catalogue, Early Stuart Portraits 1625-1685, and is as written then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.
Miniature by Samuel Cooper, bust-length oval in armour with sash, long cravat and wig, the frame cartouche is engraved: Thos. Osborne Earl of Danby. Duke of Buccleuch (S. Lloyd, Portrait Miniatures in the collection of the Duke of Buccleuch, 1996, p 82 no.40).
c.1674-76
Painting by Peter Lely, whole-length in Parliamentary robes (without Garter); compared with NPG 1472, the head is identical but the feet and hands are differently disposed. Christie’s, 1 December 2000, lot 5, from the Duke of Leeds (who had lent it to the Government Art Collection from 1930, O/319/109). The head engr. A. Blooteling (F. W. H. Hollstein, Dutch & Flemish Etchings Engravings and Woodcuts 1450-1700, 36) and a drawing by G. P. Harding, inscribed ‘Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby/from the engraving by Blooteling’, was sold Sotheby’s, 30 January 1991, part lot 22.
c.1684-85
Painting attributed to Kneller, three-quarter length seated, with wand and Garter robes. Government Art Collection (9), presented by Lord Godolphin 1833 (J. D. Stewart, Godfrey Kneller, 1983, no.423 as Kneller c.1685; in 1892 Scharf had misattributed it to Greenhill; Sir George Scharf’s Trustees’ sketch books 37:79). Has also been attributed to Claret. A copy in a private collection 2006; a version exh. Second Exhibition of National Portraits, South Kensington, 1867, no.50, lent by the Earl of Derby, was then in poor condition.
A half-length by ‘Kneller’ was lent by the Duke of Leeds to the Government Art Collection in 1930 (O/331/37).
On 29 April 1682 Charles Bertie told his niece, the Countess of Rutland, that he had not heard ‘Mr Clarett could do anything at the outcry with your commission, so that I presume those peeces were disposed of. If my painter come out of the country I will endeavour to get your Ladyship an originall of my Lord of Danby ...’; on 29 May H. E. [sic] Claret in London told Roger Herbert at Belvoir: ‘My Lady commanded me to do a picture of Lord Danby’ – who was then in the Tower of London (HMC Belvoir Castle, II, 1889, pp 71, 74).
c.1685-87
Painting by Godfrey Kneller, whole-length standing, holding wand, in Garter robes, inscribed with identity. Holkham (J. D. Stewart, Godfrey Kneller, 1983, no.424, p 193 recording a payment of £40 paid to Kneller from Lord Danby in 1687). Exhibited Age of Charles II, RA, 1960, no.99. A version at Penrhyn (National Trust).
1694-96
Statue by John van der Stein (Vanderstaine). Physic Gardens, Oxford.
1694-99
Drawing by Robert White, engr. R. White (R. White ad Vivum delin: et sculpsit) as Duke of Leeds (cr. 1694) and Lord Lieutenant of the three Ridings of Yorkshire, a post relinquished in 1699. British Museum (G.g.1-476; E. Croft-Murray & P. Hulton, British Museum, Catalogue of British Drawings: XVI and XVII centuries, I, pp 540-41, White, no.2). An example of White’s engraving is NPG 631.
Doubtful Portraits
Miniature by Nicolas Dixon (fl. 1667-1708), bust-length oval, short lace cravat. Lord Beauchamp. Exhibited British Portrait Miniatures, Edinburgh, 1965, no.144.
Painting by Godfrey Kneller 1687, three-quarter length seated, wearing brown, signed and dated. London Art market 2005.
This extended catalogue entry is by John Ingamells, one of a limited number of entries drafted in 2010 for the incomplete catalogue, Early Stuart Portraits 1625-1685, and is as written then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.