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Henry Rich c.1622-3
Engraving | 19.5 x 12.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 680576
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An engraving of Henry Rich (1590–1649), Captain of the Royal Guard from 1617, Baron Kensington from 1623, 1st Earl of Holland from 1624, Knight of the Garter from 1625. This print is lettered around the portrait: "GENEROSISS: HENRICUS RICHIUS EQVES AURATUS ET CUSTODIÆ REGIS PRÆFECTUS."; along the bottom: "The right Honourable HENRY RICH Earle of Holland, Baron / of Kensington, … / most Honourable privie Counsell. // Are to be sould by Tho Ienner at the Exchange". For other portraits of Rich, see RCINs 660718 and 680575.
The print formed part of an album of portrait prints assembled by Cassiano and his younger brother Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo in Rome. Described in an early nineteenth-century inventory of prints in George III's library as Heads of English illustrious Personages, the album was dismantled later in the nineteenth century and incorporated into the sequences of British portrait prints in the collection.
For more information see Mark McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. I: Ceremonies, Costumes, Portraits and Genre, 3 vols, Royal Collection Trust 2017, part of The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: A Catalogue Raisonné, cat. no. 1514.
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From the collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-22 October 1657); inherited by his brother, Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo (1606-1689); sold by Carlo Antonio's grandson to Clement XI, 1703; acquired by Cardinal Alessandro Albani by 1714, from whom purchased by George III in 1762
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19.5 x 12.5 cm (sheet of paper)
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