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Portrait of a nobleman, said to be Edward Viscount Conway, standing three quarter length, wearing a black doublet with grey silk slashed waistcoat and lace collar and a sword
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Follower of Marcus Geeraerts I
Portrait of a nobleman, said to be Edward Viscount Conway, standing three quarter length, wearing a black doublet with grey silk slashed waistcoat and lace collar and a sword
with inscription EDW.d Visc.t CONWAY. (NV and NV linked) upper right
oil on canvas, unframed
114 x 89 cm
Portrait of a nobleman, said to be Edward Viscount Conway, standing three quarter length, wearing a black doublet with grey silk slashed waistcoat and lace collar and a sword
with inscription EDW.d Visc.t CONWAY. (NV and NV linked) upper right
oil on canvas, unframed
114 x 89 cm
Sale room notice
The sitter (died 1631), son of Sir John Conway and Eleanor Greville, was knighted by the Earl of Essex in 1590. He served in the Netherlands as governor of the Brill and afterwards became ambassador to Prague (1623-25) and lord president of the council. He returned to England in 1616 and was created Baron Conway of Ragley in the county of Warwick in 1624/4 and Viscount Killultagh of Killultagh, county Antrim, Ireland in 1625. In 1627 he became Viscount Conway of Conway Castle in Carnarvonshire.