Johnofgaunt.jpg
Summary
Artist |
Said variously to be attributed to
Lucas Cornelisz de Kock
(1495–1552) (who however died 41 years before the painting is said (by Oliver Harris, 2010) to have been commissioned, sometimes erroneously ascribed to Luca Cornelli.
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Object type |
painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
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Description |
English:
Anachronistic portrait of
John of Gaunt
, 1st Duke of Lancaster (1340-1399), Knight of the Garter, fourth but third surviving son of King Edward III of England. Property of his descendant the Duke of Beaufort, hanging at
Badminton House
, Gloucestershire. Portrait commissioned in about 1593 by Sir
w:Edward Hoby
(1560-1617) for display inside Queenborough Castle, Kent, probably modelled on Gaunt's now lost tomb effigy in Old St Paul's Cathedral. (Source: Harris, Oliver D. (2010). "'Une tres riche sepulture': the tomb and chantry of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster in Old St Paul's Cathedral, London", published in Journal of the Church Monuments Society, Vol.25, p.16). (Sir Edward Hoby served from 1597 as Constable of Queenborough Castle in Kent, but had served earlier from 1592 as a Member of Parliament for Kent). Gaunt's tabard shows the royal arms of Castile and León impaling his differenced paternal royal arms, while on the Tudor-style shield (circumscribed by the Garter) Castile and León is shown as an inescutcheon of pretence, representing his claim to that kingdom by right of his second marriage to Constance of Castile. He is dressed in black armour, as was the custom of his eldest brother the Black Prince. Inscribed in Latin:
Johannes filius quartus Edwardi Tertii. Rex Castellae et Legione (sic, Legionis?) Dux Lancastriae Constabularius Caste(llae) de Queensbourg quinto Octobris Anno Regni Edwardi Tertii Anglia(e) 50
o
Franciae 37
o
("John, fourth son of Edward III. King of Castile and of León (Castella et Legio), Duke of Lancaster, Constable of the Castle of Queenborough on the fifth of October in the year of the reign of Edward the Third, of England the 50
th
(i.e. 1376), of France the 37
th
").
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Date |
circa 1593
date QS:P571,+1593-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Medium |
tempera
on
panel
medium QS:P186,Q175166;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
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Collection |
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
In 1929 the property of his descendant the Duke of Beaufort, (Source: Cokayne, G. E.; H. A. Doubleday & Lord Howard de Walden, eds. (1929). The Complete Peerage, or a history of the House of Lords and all its members from the earliest times (Husee to Lincolnshire). 7 (2nd ed.). London: The St. Catherine Press, p.416, note (b)) hanging at
Badminton House
, Gloucestershire, where no doubt it remains today.
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Current location |
Badminton House
, Gloucestershire
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Source/Photographer |
http://alisonweir.org.uk/books/bookpages/more-katherine-swynford_20_441522163.jpg
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Permission
( Reusing this file ) |
Published: Armitage-Smith, Sydney (1905) John of Gaunt: King of Castile and Leon, Duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster, Earl of Derby, Lincoln, and Leicester, Seneschal of England Archibald Constable, p. 100 |
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