[3] The Countess of Clanbrassil BY VAN DYCK

Anne Carey, daughter of Henry, Earl of Monmouth, married, first, James Hamilton; secondly, Sir Robert Maxwell, Bart., Viscount Claudeboye, (raised in 1647 to the Earldom of Clanbrassil). Her youngest sister, Mary, married William, third Earl of Denbigh.

Full length, standing to left in landscape, head turned towards the spectator; blue low-cut dress, pearl ornaments. She is holding cloak.

When exhibited at the Great Exhibition in Brussels in 1910, of Flemish Art of the 17th Century, it was referred to in the "Times" article of 18th July, 1910:

" At the same time we know that in his later or English period, when he painted his own pictures and did not hand them over to his crowd of assistants, he could do very noble work; and if evidence is sought in this Exhibition it is found in Mr. Pierpont Morgan's 'Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick', and in Lord Denbigh's 'Countess of Clanbrassil.' The difference between an original and school picture could not be better shown than by a comparison of this last portrait with its pendent, also a lady in blue."

Canvas 83 x 50 in. Exhibited at the British Institution 1824; Royal Academy 1900; Guildhall Flemish Exhibition 1906; Brussels Exhibition of 17th Century Flemish Art 1910. Smith's Catalogue Raisonne No. 586. See Anthony Van Dyck, by Lional Cust, F.S.A., p. 124.