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Lot Essay
Dated by Sumowski to 1636/7, this picture can be linked stylistically with Flinck's Portrait of Rembrandt as a shepherd with a flute and staff (Amsterdam, Rembrandthuis), his Portrait of Rembrandt wearing a gorget and a feathered cap (formerly A. van Weezenbeck, Lucerne) and his Portrait of a young man with a feathered cap and a sword (Krakow, Wawel).
The English collector and antiquarian John Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor, inherited considerable fortunes from both his parents, and further augmented these through his marriage in 1777 to Anne, daughter and sole heiress of Anthony Duncombe, Baron Feversham of Downton, Wiltshire. A Member of Parliament from 1771 to 1776, his chief interests lay in literary, genealogical and antiquarian pursuits - he became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1795 - as well as art, and he greatly enlarged his father and grandfather's celebrated collection of pictures and furniture at Longford Castle. The most remarkable of his acquisitions was Hans Holbein's masterpiece, The Ambassadors (London, National Gallery), which he bought from William Buchanan in 1809 for 1,000 guineas, whilst two portraits then attributed to Diego Velázquez - Don Adrián Pulido Pareja (London, National Gallery; now ascribed to Juan del Mazo) and the magnificent Juan de Pareja (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art) - were bought in 1790 and 1811 respectively. Lord Radnor was also a notable patron of Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, Angelica Kauffman, William Beechey and John Hoppner.
The English collector and antiquarian John Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor, inherited considerable fortunes from both his parents, and further augmented these through his marriage in 1777 to Anne, daughter and sole heiress of Anthony Duncombe, Baron Feversham of Downton, Wiltshire. A Member of Parliament from 1771 to 1776, his chief interests lay in literary, genealogical and antiquarian pursuits - he became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1795 - as well as art, and he greatly enlarged his father and grandfather's celebrated collection of pictures and furniture at Longford Castle. The most remarkable of his acquisitions was Hans Holbein's masterpiece, The Ambassadors (London, National Gallery), which he bought from William Buchanan in 1809 for 1,000 guineas, whilst two portraits then attributed to Diego Velázquez - Don Adrián Pulido Pareja (London, National Gallery; now ascribed to Juan del Mazo) and the magnificent Juan de Pareja (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art) - were bought in 1790 and 1811 respectively. Lord Radnor was also a notable patron of Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, Angelica Kauffman, William Beechey and John Hoppner.