Portret van Prins Ruprecht (1619-1682), paltsgraaf aan de Rijn en hertog van Cumberland

…; ? acquired by the 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718-92), of Hinchingbrooke, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, where recorded in 1751{N.A.M. Rodger, _The Insatiable Earl: A Life of John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich 1718-1792_, London 1993, p. 69.} and 1761{E. Montagu, 8th Earl of Sandwich, _Hinchingbrook_, London 1910, p. 4.}, seen by Horace Walpole in 1763;{_Horace Walpole’s Correspondence with George Montagu_, 1736-61, eds. W.S. Lewis and Ralph S. Brown, 2 vols., London/New Haven (Conn.) 1941, II, p. 79.} recorded in the library, Hinchingbrooke, 1808 (‘half length[s] of Prince Rupert when a youth’),{J. Britton and E.W. Brayley et al., _The Beauties of England and Wales; or Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of each County_, 18 vols., London 1801-15, VII, 1808, p. 475.} in the Yellow Drawing Room, 1876 (‘Prince Rupert by Van Dyck Three quarter length Rich Dress of Murrey coloured Satin with Cuirass’) and 1910;{M.L. Boyle, _Biographical Notices of the Portraits at Hinchingbrook_, London 1876, p. 138, where the costume is not accurately described; a photogravure in the Witt Library, London, of the portrait at Hinchingbrooke, from an unidentified book presumably published not long after Boyles’s volume, is of the present work.} sale, Victor (Alexander) Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke (1906-95), the eldest son of the Earl of Sandwich, London (Sotheby’s), 4 December 1957, no. 172, as Van Dyck, £ 150, to the dealer Duits, for the museum{E. Montagu, 8th Earl of Sandwich, _Hinchingbrook_, London 1910, p. 36.}