© National Portrait Gallery
Lord George Stuart, Seigneur D'Aubigny, 1618-42
Artist: Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)
Location: National Portrait Gallery
Date: 1638
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 218 x 133 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £50,000 (Total: £380,000)
Vendor: Browse & Darby
Review number: 3317 (1988)
Provenance:
Browse & Derby.
Description:
This full length portrait probably commemorates a marriage. Lord George Stuart had been brought up in France as a Catholic. The portrait is inscribed with the motto in Latin 'Love is stronger than I am' which is presumably an allusion to his conflicting loyalties at the time of his secret marriage in 1638 to Lady Katherine Howard, daughter of the Earl of Suffolk, a papist. The match incurred the wrath of Lord George's guardian, the King.
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