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This full-length double portrait of a married couple is a powerful image of the pride and prosperity of seventeenth-century Flanders and its citizens. Dressed in costly black silk garments, both sitters are looking confidently at us. The woman sitting in a red velvet upholstered armchair sports an abundance of gold jewellery. The man standing proudly to the right holds a tall staff and displays a bold red sash and an ornate sword; all three suggest that he held a military office. The portrait seems to have a slightly comical note: the man looks bemused, and his expression is mirrored by the little dog looking straight at us. The sitters are almost certainly Cornelis van Diest, dean of the guild of cloth manufacturers and captain of the city militia in Antwerp, and his wife Lucretia Courtois.
Title
Portrait of Govaert van Surpele (?) and his Wife
Date
1636-8
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 213.3 x W 189 cm
Accession number
NG6293
Acquisition method
Acquired from the 11th Duke of Devonshire by application of the 1956 Finance Act, 1958
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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