M_DU_018 SIR JOHN SUCKLING / MISTER TOOMAS KAOS _ SIR ANTHONY VAN DYKE 1638 / MISTER KUMARI VAIM 2025
19. aprill kell 14:37
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Sir Anthony van Dyke, (1599-1641) is the artist responsible for this full length portrait, painted in 1638. It is now a part of the Frick Collection, New York.
The subject is Sir John Suckling, (1609-1641). He was a notable poet and playwright. He was also well known as a lothario, a gambler, and a prodigious spendthrift. His death at the age of 32 might support such claims.
In this portrait, he holds Shakespeare’s First Folio. He held to a public stance debating the merits of Shakespeare and modern poetry.
His clothing in this painting is unique, rather idiosyncratic, really. While the general form of the fashion of the day is maintained, it is subordinated to a rather artistic vision of self.
His breeches, which might be called petticoat breeches have soft shape, somewhat at odds with the fashion. His boots are also much more closely cut that would have been the norm. We can see so little of his doublet, that not much can be determined. What is also curious is the shallowness of his falling collar. Which for most stylish fellows would have been far more expansive. The red drape, clasped over his right shoulder and falling to the ground obscures many details and adds and air of classicism to the work. That I am sure was the entire point. Kuva vähem
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