Paul van Somer in the Burlington
April 2 2025
Picture: Burlington Magazine via. Edward Town on Instagram
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
April's edition of The Burlington Magazine features the usual array of fascinating bits of art history research, including on the late Elizabethan / Jacobean portrait painter Paul van Somer (pictured above).
Here's a list of the leading articles featured:
Turner’s ‘Staffa, Fingal’s Cave’: exporting ‘indistinctness’ - By Ian Warrell
‘The monarch of the glen’: painting for the new Houses of Parliament - By Stephen Duffy
The discovery of James Gibbs’s designs for the façade of Burlington House - By William Aslet
A serendipitous discovery: a lost Italian portrait from Horace Walpole’s miniature cabinet - by Adriana Concin-Tavella
The portraits of Alice Spencer, Countess of Derby, and her family by Paul van Somer - By Edward Town and Jessica David
