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

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
On view

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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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