A Young Man with a Falcon c.1630
Oil on panel | 140.0 x 105.7 x 2.5 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 407527
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For George IV this fascinating portrait was an important work by Rubens: he hung it in the South Anti Room at Carlton House and valued it at 500 guineas. The costume dates it to the 1630s, but neither the figure nor the landscape are of sufficient quality to justify the attribution. The recently suggested name of Boeckhorst has not been universally accepted.
Provenance
Probably Duc de Choiseul-Praslin sale, Paris, 18 Feb 1793 (28); Gildemeester collection; sale Amsterdam, 11-13 June 1800 (188); Purchased as a Rubens by George IV from Sir Thomas Baring as part of a group of 86 Dutch and Flemish paintings, most of which were collected by Sir Thomas’s father, Sir Francis Baring; they arrived at Carlton House on 6 May 1814; recorded in the South Anti Room at Carlton House in 1819 (no 46), where it appears in Pyne's illustrated Royal Residences of 1819 (RCIN 922182); in the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace in 1841 (no 140)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on panel
Measurements
140.0 x 105.7 x 2.5 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
106.4 cm (maximum)
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Alternative title(s)
The Falconer
