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Old Woman Reading ,
Rembrandt , 1655
The art collection of the
Duke of Buccleuch is mostly European. The holdings, principally collected over a period of 300 years, comprise some 500 paintings, 1,000 miniatures and an enormous selection of
objets d'art including furniture, porcelain, armour, jewellery and silverwork. The vast majority of the collection is divided between three principal locations:
Bowhill House ,
Drumlanrig Castle and
Boughton House .
Collection
Paintings and drawing
Madonna of the Yarnwinder ,
Leonardo da Vinci , 1501
Portrait of Sir Nicholas Carew ,
Hans Holbein the Younger , 1532–33
Dutch School
English School
Flemish School
French School
d'Agar, Charles - 1 painting
Bourdon, Sébastien - 3 paintings (Portrait of Wenceslaus Hollar , 1657)
Danloux, Henri-Pierre - 5 paintings
Dughet, Gaspard - 1 painting
Dumont, François - 1 painting (Portrait of Marie-Antoinette )
Elizabeth, Madame (of France) - 1 painting
Heude, Nicolas - 2 paintings
Lafrensen, Nicolas (the Younger) (known as Lavreince) - 1 painting
Laroon, Marcellus - 1 painting
Lefebvre, Claude
Liotard, Jean-Étienne
Lorrain, Claude (known as Claude Gellée) - 2 paintings (The Judgement of Paris (Lorrain's earliest mythological scene) and A Seaport (Lorrain's earliest conception of classical style), both 1633)
Mare-richart, Florent-j. De La - 1 painting
Monnoyer, Jean-Baptiste - 19 paintings
Perréal, Jean - 1 painting
Rousseau, Jacques - 1 painting
Sueur, Eustache Le - 1 painting
Sueur, Hubert Le - 1 painting
Troy, François de - 1 painting
Vernet, Claude Joseph - 2 paintings
German School
Italian School
Baciccio, Il (known as Giambattista Gaulli) - 1 painting
Bassano, Francesco (the Younger) - 1 painting
Bassano, Leandro - 2 paintings
Batoni, Pompeo - 1 painting
Benaschi, Giovanni Battista - 1 painting
Campi, Vincenzo - 1 painting
Canaletto - 1 painting (View of Whitehall - one of Caneletto's greatest works)
Caravaggio, Polidoro da - 1 painting
Carpi, Girolamo da - 2 paintings
Carracci, Annibale - 2 paintings and 1 drawing (A Young Man in a plumed hat )
Carlo Dolci
Il Garafalo, (Benvenuto Tisi)
Gennari, Benedetto - 3 paintings
Luca Giordano
Granacci, Francesco - 1 painting
Guardi, Francesco - 8 paintings
Joli, Antonio - 1 painting
Leonardo da Vinci - 1 painting (
Madonna of the Yarnwinder , c. 1501)
Mainardi, Sebastiano (known as Bastiano) - 1 painting
Carlo Maratta
Marieschi, Michele - 1 painting
Panini, Giovanni Paolo - 1 painting
Parmigianino - 1 painting
Pasinelli, Lorenzo - 1 painting
Penni, Giovanni Francesco - 2 drawings (Meeting of the Two Holy Families and The Vision of Ezekial , both c. 1526, two of the largest and most important renaissance drawings alongside the
Raphael Cartoons )
Il Pordenone, (known by Giovanni Antonio de' Sacchis) - 1 painting
Puligo, Domenico - 1 painting
Salvator Rosa
Andrea Sacchi
Francesco Solimena
Alessandro Tiarini
Francesco Zuccarelli
Taddeo Zuccari
Scottish School
Spanish School
See also
Bibliography
Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh (1994), Great Houses of England & Wales , London: Lawrence King Publishing Ltd
Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh (1997), Great Houses of Scotland , London: Lawrence King Publishing Ltd
Murdoch, Tessa (1992), Boughton House, The English Versailles , London: Faber and Faber Limited
Boughton House (Guide Book) , St. Ives: Photo Precision Limited, 1976
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