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| Artist | After Rubens, Peter Paul (Flemish painter and draftsman, 1577-1640) |
| Title | Portrait of the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia |
| Date earliest | about 1615 |
| Date latest | possibly about 1700 |
| Material | oil on canvas |
| Measurements | 78.7 x 57.2 cm |
| Description | Bust-length portrait; torso and head turned to proper right, eyes facing viewer. Brown hair, put high, dressed with flowers; black and gold embroidered dress; very large wheel ruff; pearl drop earring. Red background. The original is one of a pair of pendant portraits by Rubens of 1615 (probably the pair now in the Prado, Madrid). |
| Subject | portrait |
| Collection | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): Pollok House |
| Current accession number | PC.73 |
| Previous accession number(s) | 145 |
| Acquisition details | Given by Mrs Anne Maxwell MacDonald 1967. |
| Provenance | R. Bernal sale, Christie's, London, 5-29 March 1855, lot 878, £6.16s.6d; probably Sir William Stirling Maxwell (1818-1878), 9th Bt; Stirling-Maxwell collection, by 1936; by descent to Mrs. Anne Maxwell MacDonald |
| Principal publications | Caw, J. L., Catalogue of Pictures at Pollok House, Glasgow, 1936, p. 81, no. 145, as School of Rubens; Auld, A. A., The Stirling Maxwell Collection Pollok House, Glasgow, c. 1970, p. 67, no. 73, as Flemish School. |
| Notes |
Severely damaged, apparently by a fire at Pollok House, 1908. |
| Rights status | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) |
| Author | Robert Wenley |
