Paintings in the Collection of Henry Clay Frick, 1915 [page 59]

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SIR ANTHONY CAN DYCK (1599-1641) JAMES STANLEY, SEVENTH EARL OF DERBY, CHARLOTTE, HIS WIFE, AND HIS DAUGHTER

THE Earl is represented standing on the left, habited in a full suit of black silk, and a mantle of the same. His left hand is raised, and the forefinger points upward. HIs lady is on the opposite side; her fair countenance is seen in a three-quarter view, with dark hair, tastefully arranged in curls. Her dress is composed of white satin; a pearl necklace, and a triple row of the same jewels adorn the bosom; the waist is encompassed with a girdle cf costly gems; the right hand holds a bunch of roses, and the left is extended to raise the skirt of her robe. In the centre, between them, stands their daughter, who is apparently about five years of age, and is seen in a front view, wearing a red silk frock, the bosom of which is surrounded with lace; her hands are united in front. A landscape with a wide expanse of water compose the background. A truly excellent production." —Quoted from Smith.

Waagen in his "Art Treasures of Great Britain" (Vol. II., p. 455) makes mention of this portrait: "James Stanley, seventh Earl of Derby, and his wife, Charlotte Tremouille, daughter of Claude de la Tremouille, Duke of Thouars, with a little girl, daughter Catherine, afterwards married to Wm. Pierrepont, Marquis of Dorchester.... Both these distinguished persons, who were devoted to the royal cause for which he suffered on the scaffold, have been admirably preserved to posterity in this picture. This noble and elegantly conceived picture unites that golden tone in the female portrait and those powerful brownish colors in that of the man, which were peculiar to the painter in the earlier part of his residence in England. Painted about 1632-3." This is a historic painting and comes from the collection of the Earl of Clarendon.

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