Portrait of Anne Dacres, Countess of Arundel and Surrey

Lucas Vorsterman

Summary

A reproduction produced by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Lucas Vorsterman. The drawing shows a portrait of a bust of a woman. The woman is turned towards the left to give a three-quarters view of her face. She is wearing contemporary dress with a ruff around her neck and a black cap with white lacing. In the top right of the composition is an inscription in red, and by the lower edge of the composition is another in black. Text from the accompanying booklet produced by the Vasari Society: "No. 20 LUCAS VORSTERMAN (b. 1595. In London about 1624-31. d. about 1675) PORTRAIT OF ANNE DACRES. COUNTESS OF ARUNDEL AND SURREY (b. 1557, d. 1630) Collection of Mrs. Stanley Leighton (formerly J. C. Spengler). Black and red chalks, slightly touched with white. 23 x 17.4 cm. (9 1/16 x 6 7/8 in.) Signed in ink with Vorsterman's usual monogram, composed of L and V, to right of the cap, and inscribed below in the same ink Comitissa d'Arundel uxor philippi. The same title occurs also in red chalk above the monogram. Probably the study used by Hollar in his etching (Parthey No. 1349), which is inscribed L. Vosterman ad vivum delineavit. In the etching the heading is slightly larger, and the Countess is almost in profile left, but all the essentials of dress and expression are the same, and Hollar may well have introduced such changes himself, unless we are to suppose another drawing done by Vorsterman at the same sitting. Hollar's print is inscribed aet. 69, A° 16- (the last two figures not given). The date of the Countess's birth being taken as March 1557 (see Lives of Philip Earl of Arundel and of Anne Dacres his wife, edited by the Duke of Norfolk, London, 1857), the drawing probably belongs to 1626 or early in 1627 at the latest. A. M. H."