Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.273
Gallery Label:
This portrait of a soldier is probably the work of a Dutch painter and once formed part of a set of nineteen full-length portraits depicting men who served under the command of Horace (or Horatio) Vere (1565–1635), a general in the Dutch States Army and one of the most respected soldiers in Europe. These portraits were later transferred to Raynham Hall, Norfolk. In the early eighteenth century they were chosen by the architect William Kent to create a “Spanish Invasion Room” in a new series of interiors he had designed for Raynham. This was a fanciful move on the part of Kent and his patron for neither Thomas Winne nor his fellow captains played any part in the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English fleet in 1588. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016
