Portrait of Sir Charles Harbord, full-length, in armour, holding a baton, his plumed helmet on a draped plinth at his side

Details

English School, 17th Century
Portrait of Sir Charles Harbord, full-length, in armour, holding a baton, his plumed helmet on a draped plinth at his side
oil on canvas
76 x 51¾in. (193 x 131.4 cm.)

Provenance

By descent from the sitter to Charles, 5th Lord Suffield, Gunton Park, Norfolk (recorded there by Duleep Singh, 25 August 1907, loc.cit.). Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 10 November 1982, lot 20, as 'Studio of Daniel Mytens', sold together with the following lot (£3850).

Literature

Prince Frederick Duleep Singh, Portraits in Norfolk Houses, 1927, I, p.196, no. 49, as of an unnamed sitter.

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Lot Essay

Sir Charles Harbord, Kt., of Stanninghall, married Mary (for whom see the following lot), daughter of John Van Alst of Flanders, in 1626. He was Surveyor-General to King Charles I and King Charles II and died in 1679, aged 84. The sitter is shown in a suit of Greenwich armour, possibly manufactured in the 1620s.

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