拍品专文
The present painting is a copy after a picture recorded by Larsen (The Paintings of Anthony van Dyck, II, 1988, no.922) whose present whereabouts are unknown. There are similar copies at Knole and the National Portrait Gallery. The primary double image of the two friends is in the Egremont Collection at Petworth House, which shows the sitters in reversed positions.
Mountjoy Blount, created Earl of Newport in 1628, was the natural son of Charles Blount, Earl of Devonshire and Penelope, Countess of Essex. He was one of the Council of War in the Royalist army, and Master of the Ordnance. In 1655 he was committed to the Tower on suspicion of treason, and died in Oxford ten years later. George, Lord Goring, the eldest son of George, Earl of Norwich, started his professional life as a solidier in the Low Countries. In 1641 he was made Governor of Portsmouth by King Charles I, but at the outbreak of the Civil War he betrayed the King and escaped abroad in 1648. The last years of his life were spent as a Dominican friar in Madrid.
Mountjoy Blount, created Earl of Newport in 1628, was the natural son of Charles Blount, Earl of Devonshire and Penelope, Countess of Essex. He was one of the Council of War in the Royalist army, and Master of the Ordnance. In 1655 he was committed to the Tower on suspicion of treason, and died in Oxford ten years later. George, Lord Goring, the eldest son of George, Earl of Norwich, started his professional life as a solidier in the Low Countries. In 1641 he was made Governor of Portsmouth by King Charles I, but at the outbreak of the Civil War he betrayed the King and escaped abroad in 1648. The last years of his life were spent as a Dominican friar in Madrid.