The Archduke Albert of Austria (1559
- 1621) was appointed Governor of the Netherlands in 1595, & from 1598 became joint sovereign
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Van Dyck made a number of self-portraits, & this painting is thought to be a late 18th or early 19th-century copy after a self-portrait design of about 1620, of which the prime version is in Munich (Alte Pinakothek). ...

This is the only known portrait in which Gainsborough included himself with his family. With him are his wife, Margaret Burr, whom he married in July 1746, & their daughter. Gainsborough holds in his hand a paper, perhaps once showing a sketch, but now transparent with age, as is the figure of the child. It has been presumed that she must be the Gainsborough's eldest surviving daughter Mary, born shortly before February 1750. However, both the style of the background & the evident difficulties Gainsborough had with the proportions of the rather stiff-limbed figures suggest a date closer to 1747-8, when Gainsborough was still working in London. The child may, therefore, be the Gainsborough's first-born but short-lived daughter, also named Mary, who died in 1748. Her date of birth is so far untraced, but the child in the picture would seem to be around eighteen months old. ...

The artist made several portraits of Luise Steurwaldt, whom he married at Roehampton on 11 February 1872. This work is closely related to a larger painting (Frankfurt, Stadelsches Kunstinstitut) where the sitter wears the same costume but holds a European ...

Cunera Cornelisdr. van der Cock (1629/30
- 1700) married Frans van Mieris in 1657. She was the mother of Willem van Mieris whose
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The identification of the sitter is confirmed by comparison with portrait medals. Andrea Gritti (1455
- 1538) was elected Doge
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Isabella Clara Eugenia (1566
- 1633), Archduchess of Austria, was the daughter of Philip II of Spain by whom she was made joint
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Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel & Surrey (1585
- 1646), became Earl Marshal of England in 1621. He was one of the first &
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The sitter was formerly identified as the French social reformer Victor Considerant (1808
- 1893) by tradition & by comparison
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