Marcus Geeraerts the Younger
Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland (c. 1575-1633)

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Artist Marcus Geeraerts the Younger (Flemish, 1561–1636, active England)Flemish, 1561–1636, active England

CultureFlemish

Titles

Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland (c. 1575-1633)

Date1603

PlaceEngland

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall: 85 1/8 × 50 in. (216.2 × 127 cm)

Credit LineSarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston

Object numberBF.1985.19

Current Location

The Audrey Jones Beck Building

215 Blaffer Galleries

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Department

Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation

Object Type

PAINTING

ProvenanceBy descent, Lucius Cary, Fifteenth Viscount Falkland (born 1935); [Charles Jerdein, London]; purchased by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, 1985.
Exhibition History"The Old Masters: Selections from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation," Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas, May 22–July 6, 2003.

"Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill," Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, October 15, 2009–January 3, 2010; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, March 6–July 4, 2010.

"British Paintings 1550–1800 from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation," Ellen Noël Art Museum, Odessa, Texas, November 13, 2010–January 10, 2011.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed upper right, 'An˚ 1603', upper left, 'Il variar nemico di Effetti', and lower right, in a later hand, 'Henry Carey, Viscount Falkland'

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