{"id":6412,"date":"2015-07-09T14:09:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T14:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vangoyourself.wpengine.com\/?p=6412"},"modified":"2015-08-05T15:37:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T15:37:07","slug":"the-great-picture-triptych-attributed-to-jan-van-belcamp-1610-1653","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/paintings\/the-great-picture-triptych-attributed-to-jan-van-belcamp-1610-1653\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Picture Triptych"},"content":{"rendered":"

This monumental painting, which is nearly five metres wide, presents the family history and accomplishments of Lady Anne Clifford using a combination of portraiture, text and symbolism.<\/p>\n

The left panel of the triptych depicts Lady Anne Clifford at the age of 15, when she was disinherited. The inclusion of portraits and books highlight Lady Anne\u2019s education and refined upbringing.<\/p>\n

The central panel depicts Lady Anne\u2019s parents, Margaret Russell and George Clifford, third Earl of Cumberland, with her older brothers, who did not survive to adulthood. On the walls behind the family group hang portraits of Lady Anne\u2019s four aunts. As Lady Anne was not born until 1590, she does not appear in the central panel as such, but Lady Margaret\u2019s gesture hints that the daughter who would ultimately become the Clifford heir had already been conceived at the time of the original painting.<\/p>\n

The right panel shows Lady Anne in late middle age, when she finally regained the Clifford estates. Portraits of Lady Anne\u2019s two husbands hang behind her. The depiction of Lady Anne at fifty-six was used as the model for many subsequent portraits and is probably the only likeness in The Great Picture to have been painted from life.<\/p>\n

The triptych is a composite work by a skilled copyist working from miniatures, portraits and whatever gowns and armour were still in Lady Anne\u2019s possession. The piece has been attributed to Jan van Belcamp (1610-1653), a Dutch artist active in England who was a specialist in this genre.<\/p>\n

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This monumental painting, which is nearly five metres wide, presents the family history and accomplishments of Lady Anne Clifford using a combination of portraiture, text and symbolism. The left panel of the triptych depicts Lady Anne Clifford at the age of 15, when she was disinherited. The inclusion of portraits and books highlight Lady Anne\u2019s … Continue reading The Great Picture Triptych<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}