The art collection of the

Duke of Buccleuch Duke of Buccleuch (pronounced ), formerly also spelt Duke of Buccleugh, is a title in the Peerage of Scotland created twice on 20 April 1663, first for James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth and second suo jure for his wife Anne Scott, 4th Cou ...

is mostly European. The holdings, principally collected over a period of 300 years, comprise some 500 paintings, 1,000 miniatures and an enormous selection of

objets d'art In art history, the French term Objet d’art describes an ornamental work of art, and the term Objets d’art describes a range of works of art, usually small and three-dimensional, made of high-quality materials, and a finely-rendered finish th ...

including furniture, porcelain, armour, jewellery and silverwork. The vast majority of the collection is divided between three principal locations:

Bowhill House Bowhill House is a historic house near Bowhill at Selkirk in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. It is a member of the Historic Houses Association, and is one of the homes of the Duke of Buccleuch. The house is protected as a Category A lis ...

Drumlanrig Castle Drumlanrig Castle is situated on the Queensberry Estate in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The category A listed castle is the Dumfriesshire home of the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry. It is open to the public at set times. Co ...

and

Boughton House Boughton House is a country house in the parish of Weekley in Northamptonshire, England, situated about north-east of Kettering. It is situated within an estate of . The present house was built by Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu (d.1709), ...

Collection

Paintings and Drawing

''Dutch School'' :* Cuyp, Aelbert Jacobsz :* Rembrandt, Harmenszoon van Rijn (''Old Woman Reading'', 1655 - one of Rembrandt's greatest works) :* Ruisdael, Jacob van - 2 paintings (''Landscape'', one of his three greatest works) :* Wouwerman, Philips :* Wyck, Jan - 5 paintings (''Equestrian portrait of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch'', c. 1670s) ''English School'' :* Bardwell, Thomas - 10 paintings :* Beechey, William - 7 paintings :* Cotes, Francis - 2 paintings :* Gainsborough, Thomas - 6 paintings :* Kneller, Sir Godfrey - 30 paintings :* Lely, Sir Peter - 19 paintings :* Reynolds, Joshua - 6 paintings (''Lady Caroline Scott'', 1776) ''Flemish School'' :* d'Arthois, Jacques :* Brueghel, Jan (the Younger) :* John de Critz (the Elder) :*

Anthony van Dyck Sir Anthony van Dyck (, many variant spellings; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Brabantian Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Southern Netherlands and Italy. The seventh c ...

- 3x paintings and 40 grisaille portraits (''painted for 'The Iconograph, 1645) :*

Jan Gossaert Jan Gossaert (c. 1478 – 1 October 1532) was a French-speaking painter from the Low Countries also known as Jan Mabuse (the name he adopted from his birthplace, Maubeuge) or Jennyn van Hennegouwe ( Hainaut), as he called himself when he matri ...

, (known as Jan Mabuse) :*

David Teniers the Younger David Teniers the Younger or David Teniers II (bapt. 15 December 1610 – 25 April 1690) was a Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, draughtsman, miniaturist painter, staffage painter, copyist and art curator. He was an extremely versatile arti ...

- 2 paintings ''French School'' :* d'Agar, Charles - 1 painting :* Bourdon, Sébastien - 3 paintings (''Portrait of Wenceslaus Hollar'', 1657) :* Danloux, Henri-Pierre - 5 paintings :* Dughet, Gaspard - 1 painting :* Dumont, François - 1 painting (''Portrait of Marie-Antoinette'') :* Elizabeth, Madame (of France) - 1 painting :*Heude, Nicolas - 2 paintings :*Lafrensen, Nicolas (the Younger) (known as Lavreince) - 1 painting :* Laroon, Marcellus - 1 painting :* Lefebvre, Claude :* Liotard, Jean-Étienne :* Lorrain, Claude (known as Claude Gellée) - 2 paintings (''The Judgement of Paris'' (Claude's earliest mythological scene) and ''A Seaport'' (Claude's earliest conception of classical style), both 1633) :*Mare-richart, Florent-j. De La - 1 painting :* Monnoyer, Jean-Baptiste - 19 paintings :* Perréal, Jean - 1 painting :* Rousseau, Jacques - 1 painting :* Sueur, Eustache Le - 1 painting :* Sueur, Hubert Le - 1 painting :* Troy, François de - 1 painting :* Vernet, Claude Joseph - 2 paintings ''German School'' :*

Lucas Cranach the Elder Lucas Cranach the Elder (german: Lucas Cranach der Ältere ; – 16 October 1553) was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is know ...

Hans Holbein the Younger Hans Holbein the Younger ( , ; german: Hans Holbein der Jüngere; – between 7 October and 29 November 1543) was a Germans, German-Swiss people, Swiss painter and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style, and is considered o ...

:* Mengs, Anton Raphael - 3 paintings ''Italian School'' :* Baciccio, Il (known as Giambattista Gaulli) - 1 painting :* Bassano, Francesco (the Younger) - 1 painting :* Bassano, Leandro - 2 paintings :* Batoni, Pompeo - 1 painting :* Benaschi, Giovanni Battista - 1 painting :* Campi, Vincenzo - 1 painting :*

Canaletto Giovanni Antonio Canal (18 October 1697 – 19 April 1768), commonly known as Canaletto (), was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school. Painter of city views or ...

- 1 painting (''View of Whitehall'' - one of Caneletto's greatest works) :* Caravaggio, Polidoro da - 1 painting :* Carpi, Girolamo da - 2 paintings :* Carracci, Annibale - 2 paintings and 1 drawing (''A Young Man in a plumed hat'') :*

Carlo Dolci Carlo (or Carlino) Dolci (25 May 1616 – 17 January 1686) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence, known for highly finished religious pictures, often repeated in many versions. Biography He was born in Florence, ...

:* Il Garafalo, (Benvenuto Tisi) :* Gennari, Benedetto - 3 paintings :*

Luca Giordano Luca Giordano (18 October 1634 – 3 January 1705) was an Italian late-Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Fluent and decorative, he worked successfully in Naples and Rome, Florence, and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain. Ear ...

:* Granacci, Francesco - 1 painting :* Guardi, Francesco - 8 paintings :* Joli, Antonio - 1 painting :*

Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, Drawing, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially res ...

- 1 painting ('' The Madonna of the Yarnwinder'', c. 1501) :* Mainardi, Sebastiano (known as Bastiano) - 1 painting :*

Carlo Maratta Carlo Maratta or Maratti (13 May 162515 December 1713) was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner. Although he is part of the classical tradition ...

:* Marieschi, Michele - 1 painting :* Panini, Giovanni Paolo - 1 painting :*

Parmigianino Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (11 January 150324 August 1540), also known as Francesco Mazzola or, more commonly, as Parmigianino (, , ; "the little one from Parma"), was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bo ...

- 1 painting :* Pasinelli, Lorenzo - 1 painting :* Penni, Giovanni Francesco - 2 drawings (''Meeting of the Two Holy Families'' and ''The Vision of Ezekial'', both c. 1526, two of the largest and most important renaissance drawings alongside the

Raphael Cartoons The Raphael Cartoons are seven large cartoons for tapestries, belonging to the British Royal Collection but since 1865 on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, designed by the High Renaissance painter Raphael in 1515–16 and showi ...

) :* Il Pordenone, (known by Giovanni Antonio de' Sacchis) - 1 painting :* Puligo, Domenico - 1 painting :*

Salvator Rosa Salvator Rosa (1615 –1673) is best known today as an Italian Baroque painter, whose romanticized landscapes and history paintings, often set in dark and untamed nature, exerted considerable influence from the 17th century into the early 19th ...

Andrea Sacchi Andrea Sacchi (30 November 159921 June 1661) was an Italian painter of High Baroque Classicism, active in Rome. A generation of artists who shared his style of art include the painters Nicolas Poussin and Giovanni Battista Passeri, the sculptors ...

Francesco Solimena Francesco Solimena (4 October 1657 – 3 April 1747) was a prolific Italian painter of the Baroque era, one of an established family of painters and draughtsmen. Biography Francesco Solimena was born in Canale di Serino in the province of ...

Alessandro Tiarini Alessandro Tiarini (20 March 1577 – 8 February 1668) was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School. Biography Alessandro Tiarini was born in Bologna. His mother died when he was a child, and he was raised by an aunt. Early on his f ...

Francesco Zuccarelli Giacomo Francesco Zuccarelli (commonly known as Francesco Zuccarelli, ; 15 August 1702 – 30 December 1788) RA, was an Italian artist of the late Baroque or Rococo period. He is considered to be the most important landscape painter to hav ...

Taddeo Zuccari Taddeo Zuccaro (or Zuccari) (1 September 15292 September 1566) was an Italian painter, one of the most popular members of the Roman mannerist school. Biography Zuccaro was born in Sant'Angelo in Vado, near Urbino, the son of Ottaviano Zuccaro, ...

''Scottish School'' :* Raeburn, Henry - 2 paintings ''Spanish School'' :*

Juan Pantoja de la Cruz Juan Pantoja de La Cruz (1553 – 26 October 1608) was a Spanish painter, one of the best representatives of the Spanish school of court painters. He worked for Philip II and Philip III. The Museo del Prado contains examples of his severe portr ...

- 2 paintings :*

El Greco Domḗnikos Theotokópoulos ( el, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος ; 1 October 1541 7 April 1614), most widely known as El Greco ("The Greek"), was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El G ...

(''The Adoration of the Shepards'', c. 1574-5) :*

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Bartolomé Esteban Murillo ( , ; late December 1617, baptized January 1, 1618April 3, 1682) was a Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporar ...

Bibliography

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