Brownlow Cecil, 9th Earl of Exeter, Burghley House, near Stamford, Northamptonshire (by 1847) ; William Alleyne Cecil, 3rd Marquis of Exeter 1825–1895, Burghley House, near Stamford Northamptonshire (until 1888) ; Marquis of Exeter sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London (June 9, 1888, no
P. Jackson Higgs.
James Stuart was a loyal supporter of his cousin Charles I and served in high posts at court, such as Gentleman of the Bedchamber and Lord Steward of the Household. He was installed as Knight of the Garter on November 6, 1633, and in 1641 was created Duke of Richmond
London, 1857, p. 396. Percy Rendell Head. Van Dyck. London, 1879, p. 79.
Along with the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (The Met 14.40.633), the Salvator Mundi (Savior of the World) is one of two exceptional paintings by Albrecht Dürer in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum
American Art News 20 (December 3, 1921), p. 1, ill. p. 6. Pierre du Colombier.
(p. 255). Vienna. Albertina.
The Artist: A successor of Jan van Eyck and Petrus Christus, and a contemporary of Gerard David, Hans Memling was among the most important artists of fifteenth-century Bruges. Although he spent the majority of his career in that thriving city, he was born around 1435–40 in the German town of Klein-Krotzenburg near Seligenstadt, south-east of Frankfurt, Germany
Christ’s resurrection and of the promise of immortality for Christians.� See Hope B.
Georges de La Tour’s Fortune Teller is one of the painter’s early masterpieces. It has been variously dated between 1620 and 1639, and it is most likely from the 1630s. The canvas is signed at top right: G
B[enedict]. N[icolson]. "’The Fortune Teller‘ at the Louvre."
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1925. p. 40, fig. 20, ill. p. 41.
Kennedy Tod ; Mary Elizabeth Adams Brown Sally B.
Said to have come from Kataphygi, Attica Fragmentary shaft (a); base (b); acroterion
