Old Master Paintings

Old Master Paintings

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 44. A double portrait of George, Lord Digby, later 2nd Earl of Bristol (1612–1677) and William, Lord Russell, later 1st Duke of Bedford (1616–1700).

Property of the Marquess of Downshire

After Sir Anthony van Dyck

A double portrait of George, Lord Digby, later 2nd Earl of Bristol (1612–1677) and William, Lord Russell, later 1st Duke of Bedford (1616–1700)

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April 6, 01:50 PM GMT

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2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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Property of the Marquess of Downshire

After Sir Anthony van Dyck

A double portrait of George, Lord Digby, later 2nd Earl of Bristol (1612–1677) and William, Lord Russell, later 1st Duke of Bedford (1616–1700) 


oil on canvas

unframed: 49.5 x 36 cm.; 19½ x 14/18 in.

framed: 63.2 x 52.7 cm.; 24⅞ x 20⅝ in. 

In the family collection of the Marquess of Downshire for three generations.
S. Barnes et. al., Van Dyck: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, New Haven and London 2004, p. 503, under no. IV.92 (as a 'small late seventeenth-century copy'). 

Commonly referred to as War and Peace, as the two sitters fought on opposing sides during the Civil War, this late seventeenth-century copy derives from Van Dyck's portrait of George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol and his brother-in-law William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford in the collection of the Earl of Spencer at Althorp House, Northamptonshire.1


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