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Catalogue of paintings in the collection of the Society of Antiquaries of London

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The paintings owned by the Society of Antiquaries of London are important for the quality of some of the individual paintings and for the collection as a whole. Before England’s National Portrait Gallery was founded, the Society pioneered the study of royal portraiture, seeking to establish the true likenesses of the Tudor and Plantagenet monarchs and some of their continental counterparts. In the words of Sir Roy Strong, the Society’s early portraits are "of the utmost national importance... next to the Royal Collection, the most important series of early sixteenth-century royal portraits to survive as a group". They are joined in this scholarly catalogue raisonée by works that have been exhibited in Europe’s major museums: among them are Hans Eworth’s portrait of Mary I, Simone dei Crocifissi’s 'Dream of the Virgin', an outstanding example of fourteenth-century Bolognese Gothic art now on long-term loan to the National Gallery, and portraits of Daniel and Rebecca Minet by Thomas Gainsborough.

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    [London]: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2015

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    • 190940019X
    • 9781909400191

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    Portraying the past: the Society of Antiquaries' picture collection -- The Reverend Thomas Kerrich, FSA, donor of the Kerrich collection -- The Kerrich collection and the arch-topped paintings -- THE CATALOGUE: British portraits before 1660 --continental portraits before 1660 -- devotional subjects -- icons -- British antiquaries -- topographical views

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