Weston Park's Pictures
April 21 2020
Picture: @Weston_Park
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Weston Park in Staffordshire, the ancestral home of the Earls of Bradford, have been sharing some rather good high-resolution images of their paintings collections via their Twitter account over the past few weeks.
The picture above is a Holbein of Sir George Carew, Captain of the Mary Rose. It's so good that I can zoom in to see the detail of the badge in Carew's hat, which might be a figure of Neptune especially considering the sitter's naval career. The drawing for this portrait is in the Royal Collection.
The property is run and maintained by the Trustees of the Weston Park Foundation. This foundation was established in 1986 after the house and parkland was given to the nation by the 7th Earl of Bradford. It is not immediately clear whether this included the collection, or whether the artworks are still privately owned. Regardless, it is incredible rare for a collection of this kind to share images of this quality for free.
Pictures worth seeing are this Lely, a portrait by Constable, Gainsborough (posted last year) , Van Dyck (posted last year).
