Template:Did you know nominations/William Villiers, 2nd Viscount Grandison
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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:51, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
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William Villiers, 2nd Viscount Grandison
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Portrait by Anthony van Dyck
- ... that a portrait of the Cavalier Viscount Grandison (pictured) caused a sensation at Detroit, but later turned out to be of another man?
Sources (1) : Apollo Volume 22 (1976), p. 91 : "ONE of the outstanding items in the great Van Dyck Loan Exhibition at Detroit, U.S.A., in 1929, was beyond question the sumptuous "William Villiers, Viscount Grandison," the property of Mr. Harry Payne Whitney, of New York (Fig. I). It seems to have created something of a sensation..."; (2) The Connoisseur Volumes 122-123 (1948), p. 42 : "The Whitney Van Dyck was, during its long ownership in England, known as the portrait of William Villiers, Viscount Grandison... The definite identification of the subject was made only recently when the late Mr. Francis M. Kelly discovered in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris a contemporary drawing of it by Louis Boudan inscribed in a contemporary hand : Henry de Lorraine, duc de Guise."
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Created by Moonraker (talk). Self-nominated at 09:51, 10 January 2018 (UTC).
New and long enough; no outstanding problems. Hook is good, quoted offline sources accepted in good faith. QPQ done. I took the liberty to make some adjustments to the article (and left a few further comments on the talk page). This image is fine, but please consider adding the immediate sources for the Lydiard portrait and the engraving in their Commons descriptions. (They're PD as faithful reproductions of old works, but the sources of the files should be noted nontheless.) --Paul_012 (talk) 01:50, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
- Paul_012, thank you for the review, and that's fair comment about the two images. As you must have found, as you don't mention it, someone else uploaded the portrait offered for DYK, and its Commons description gives the source as this National Gallery of Art page. Moonraker (talk) 06:30, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
