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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,876927,00.html
Out of a Cottage – 1971 [this painting would have been in the estate of the 2nd Baron Newlands]
The picture had hung for years above the fireplace of a cottage in the Thames side village of Bray:
a long-nosed, sallow ascetic with a scarred mouth, dressed in fur-trimmed doublet and dark
scholar's cloak. A gold halo and inscription announce him to be St. Ivo, "the poor man's lawyer."
Behind him, a window discloses silver water, trees, a farm, an arched bridge. The little panel (it
measures 181 in. by 141 in.) had disappeared in the Middle Ages and reappeared late in the 19th
century in the collection of the first Lord Newlands of Mauldslie Castle, a Scottish industrialist
with a taste for painting. It was vaguely attributed to the 15th century Flemish painter Quentin
Massys. But nobody paid much attention, least of all the owner's heir Violet, Lady Baird [Joan
Violet Barker, widow of Major Sir James Hozier Gardiner, 9th Bt. Baird of Saughtonhall], who kept
it in her cottage at Bray mainly because it reminded her of a dear friend. Then, in December 1967,
she decided to sell a trinket or two. David Carritt, a renowned art sleuth then working for Christie's,
obligingly visited the cottage at Bray, expecting nothing, and came away stunned. The painting, he
said, "is one of the most rare, beautiful and important 15th century Flemish pictures anywhere in
the world."
Duke or Saint. This week Britain's National Gallery will put the panel on show cleaned, the halo and lettering removed (they are by a
later hand), and identified as a lost work by the great Flemish master Rogier van der Weyden. After long negotiation with the estate
of Lady Baird, who died in 1969, the gallery bought it for the equivalent in cash and tax relief of $1,920,000. It was the second
highest price ever paid by the museum for a work of art, topped only by the $2,240,000 paid for Leonardo da Vinci's cartoon of the
Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist and St. Anne, in 1962.
Carritt had concluded that it was a portrait painted around 1440 of Van der Weyden's patron, Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.
Other experts, such as John Pope-Hennessy, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, agreed. If it began as a portrait and was
later converted into a religious image of St. Ivo, the National Gallery's painting is of unparalleled historical interest: it would be the
first portrait in the history of Western art with a landscape in the background. Moreover, says Christie's, "it is the first portrait in
European history to depict the sitter engaged in a normal everyday activity —in this case, reading a missive." The painted lettering is
illegible and thus gives no clue to the man's identity, but the scar is identical to that shown on other known portraits of Philip.
The National Gallery cautiously prefers to stick with St. Ivo. "The natural pose would be extraordinary if the picture were of Philip,
merely somewhat unusual but nevertheless remarkable if it were of a saint," says Director Martin Davies. Yet the scholarly debate
will certainly go on. The impassioned detail from the heavy eyes and fine-drawn skin to the sensitive mouth, argue a living model
whose exact image Rogier van der Weyden was determined to record. Duke or saint, the painting is one of the most precious art
discoveries of the past ten years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cecil%2C_3rd_Marquess_of_Exeter
< William Alleyne Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter, PC (April 30, 1825 – July 14, 1895) was the son of Brownlow
Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Exeter.
He married Lady Georgina Sophia Pakenham, daughter of Thomas Pakenham, 2nd Earl of Longford, on 17
October 1848. They had at least nine children:
Brownlow Henry George, Lord Burghley (1849–1918)
Lord Francis Horace Pierrepont (1851–1889), m. Edith Brookes, daughter of Sir William Brookes, 1st Baronet.
Lord William (1854–1943), married (1) Mary Tyssen-Amherst, Baroness Amherst, (2) Violet Freer.
Lady Catherine Sarah (1861–1918), married Henry Vane, 9th Baron Barnard.
Lord John Pakenham (1867-1942)
Lady Isabella Georgiana Katherine (d. 1903), married William Battie-Wrightson.
Lady Mary Louisa Wellesley (d. 1930), married James Hozier, 2nd Baron Newlands.
Lady Louisa Alexandrina (d. 1950), died unmarried.
Lady Frances Emily (d. 1951), died unmarried.
78. The Honourable Charles Maule Ramsay 1904-07
b. 27 Jan 1859; d. 7 Apr 1936; m. 28 May 1885 Martha Estelle Garrision (d. 18 Jul 1964).
MP for Forfarshire 1894 - son of the 12 Earl of Dalhousie.
He lived at 48 Grosvenor Square, 1892-1904. His mother lived there with his nephew [the 14 Earl of Dalhousie], 1896-1903.
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