Portrait of Mountjoy Blount, Earl of Newport, and George, Lord Goring

Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport (1597-1665), and Lord George Goring (1608-1657)

ca. 1637

A painting of two men looking out at the viewer and standing casually in front of a pillar and a landscape. Both men have long hair, are armed with swords and wear elaborate dress with white lace shirts, red sleeves, breast plates, etc.

Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport (1597-1665), and Lord George Goring (1608-1657) sat for two different friendship portraits by Van Dyck in the late 1630s - this one purchased by Doris Duke in 1963 for Rough Point, and a different version of around the same date in Petworth House, West Sussex, England. In the Petworth House portrait the two men have shifted their poses and there is the addition of a page fastening the rose silk sash of Lord Goring.

There is a later copy after the Rough Point portrait in the National Gallery London.

Flemish

Oil on canvas; carved and gilded wood frame

Overall: 71 3/4 x 5 3/4 x 63 in. (182.2 x 14.6 x 160 cm)

Purchased by Doris Duke at Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, May 1, 1963, sale 2193, lot 11

1999.982