Alexander Keirincx, 1600–1652, Flemish, active in Britain (1625; 1639–41)
Title:
Richmond Castle, Yorkshire
Date:
1639
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
18 x 27 inches (45.7 x 68.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1978.4
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
clouds | town | village | landscape | fields | hills | river | castle
Associated Places:
England | United Kingdom | Yorkshire | Swale | Richmond | North Yorkshire | Richmond Castle
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17)
Publications:
Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986 : Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, p. 15, no. 31, N590.2 .A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Linda Colley, Crown Pictorial : Art and the British Monarchy : Exhibition Labels, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1990, pp. 12-13, no. 31, N8219 K5 C761 1990 (YCBA)Linda Colley, Crown Pictorial : Art and the British Monarchy, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1990, p. 29, no. 31, N8219 K5 C76 1990 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 132-133, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, pp. 9, 15, no. 31, N1 .B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Owned by King Charles I, whose royal cipher “CR” is branded on the back, this topographical view of Richmond Castle in Yorkshire was part of a royal commission to the Flemish painter Alexander Keirincx for views of ten royal strongholds in Scotland and northern England. They are among the earliest topographical landscapes made in Britain and were hung together with views of other royal properties at Oatlands Palace in Surrey. The set was dispersed after Charles’s execution in 1649. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016