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Potrait Information.

 

Thomas Howard 14th Earl of Arundel, 4th Earl of Surrey and 1st Earl of Norfolk.

As Described by the National Portrait Gallery, he was;

An art collector and patron, Arundel was the most influential connoisseur of his age. He is described as 'one that loved and favoured all arts and artists in great measure and was the bringer of them in to England'. He fostered the careers of Inigo Jones, Daniel Mytens, Wenceslaus Hollar, Van Dyck, and Rubens, who called him 'one of the evangelists of art'; the major influence on the connoisseurship of the royal family, and on the formation of artistic taste amongst the aristocracy and gentry; he withdrew to a self-imposed exile during the Civil War but made his Royalist sympathies clear by donating £54,000 to the King's cause. (National Portrait Gallery, 2014)

Figure 4.0

 

Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel, 4th Earl of Surrey and 1st Earl of Norfolk (1585-1646), patron of art, collector and politician, with his grandson, Thomas Howard, 5th Duke of Norfolk (1627-1677)

 

- The impression this image gives me initally is a very strong authroritive feel with the amour and the wayhe is holding his body but the arm around his grandsons shoulder show a kinder, softer angle. As he was never a miltary man I think it is in the painting to show his rank in society.

- Long thin nose

- Pale

- Large Forehead with a crinkle inbetween the brows

- Short bushy brows

- Shaggy thin hair looks very wiht a grey patch in the side

 

 

Figure 4.1

Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel, 4th Earl of Surrey and 1st Earl of Norfolk

 

- He looks more gingery in this portait compared to the others 

- Younger with less under eye bags and textured skin

- Beard seems more groomed and flat in apperance

- Moles aren't painted in 

- Looks very important and status (to me) seems very key in this portrait

 

 

Figure 4.2

Figure 4.3

Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel, 4th Earl of Surrey and 1st Earl of Norfolk

 

-This is a full length one so isn't as close up as the others so the detail in his face isn't the best

- I think this portait is to represent his satuts and achievement is life, more symbolic than the other I have looked at 

- Doesn't look as masculine and strong in appearance

- Once again hair colour is different, alot darker than all the others

 

 

Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel, 4th Earl of Surrey and 1st Earl of Norfolk

(chosen portrait)

 

- Owned seventeenth-century collections of painting and sculpture. 

- As a sketch it has an exceptional liveliness in its characterisation of a man with a worldly and perhaps slightly cynical mind. (National Portrait Gallery, 2014)

-Sir Peter Paul Rubens 1629

- Yellowy skin tone

- The most textured looking portait of his, lots more detail and depth 

- Hair looks alot more fluffier and soft changing shades depednign on where the light hits

Chosen Portrait..

 

I have dcided that Thomas Howard is the sitter I would like to do, I find that both he has an intresting face and there are many skills I could use to re-create one of these portraits and give myself a little challange by pushing my skills and time management within this unit. Out of all these I have chosen figure 4.3 (Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel, 4th Earl of Surrey and 1st Earl of Norfolk) as to me this is very striking and everytime my eyes are drawn to him because of his intresting nose structure and facial hair.

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