
Old Master Collecting

Portrait of Don Rodrigo Calderon on Horseback (1577/8-1625) ©
Raphael was the artist most admired by Georgian collectors; Old Master paintings were judged against this single yard-stick. The tradition of Raphael was understood to have divided into three main currents. His draughtsmanship and ideal beauty inspired the work of Italian seventeenth-century artists, like Guido Reni and Carlo Maratta. His dignified and expressive story-telling can be seen in the work of Eustache Le Sueur and French landscape painting. His painterly qualities – use of colour and atmospheric light – lived on in the work of his Flemish admirers, Rubens and van Dyck, who also learned from Venetian Renaissance painting.
Benvenuto di Pietro Tisi, called Garofalo (1476-Ferrara 1559)
The Holy Family
Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641)
Thomas Killigrew and William, Lord Crofts (?)
Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641)
Portrait of a Man
Carlo Maratti (1625-Rome 1713)
The Annunciation
Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-Bologna 1642)
Cleopatra with the Asp
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
Sir Henry Guildford (1489-1532)
Gaspard Dughet (1615-75)
Landscape with Figures Beside a Waterfall
Filippo Lauri (Rome 1623-Rome 1694)
Jacob Fleeing from Laban
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640)
The Holy Family with Saint Francis
Gaspard Dughet (1615-75)
Landscape with figures by a pool
Marco Ricci (Belluno 1676-Venice 1730)
Moses and the Miracle of the Rock
Frans Hals (Antwerp c. 1580-Haarlem 1666)
Portrait of a Man
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
Thomas Howard, Third Duke of Norfolk (1473-1554)
Eustache Le Sueur (1616-55)
Caligula depositing the Ashes of his Mother and Brother in the Tomb of his Ancestors
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640)
Portrait of Don Rodrigo Calderon on Horseback (1577/8-1625)
Workshop of Andrea del Sarto (Florence 1486-Florence 1530)
The Virgin and Child with Saint John
David Teniers the Younger (Antwerp 1610-Brussels 1690)
Interior of a Famhouse with Figures ('The Stolen Kiss')
Trophime Bigot (1579-c.1650)
Christ in the Carpenter's Shop
Gaspard Dughet (1615-75)
Seascape with Jonah and the Whale
Jan van der Hoecke (Antwerp 1611 - Antwerp or Brussels 1651)
The Battle of Nördlingen, 1634
William Kent (1684-1748)
The Battle of Agincourt(?)
Claude Gellée, called Le Lorrain (1604/5-82)
A View of the Campagna from Tivoli
Attributed to Pontormo (1494-1556)
The Virgin and Child
Claude Gellée, called Le Lorrain (1604/5-82)