Portrait of Mountjoy Blount, Earl of Newport and George, Lord Goring

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Portrait of Mountjoy Blount

This is one of two double portraits painted by Anthony Van Dyck for the two men depicted here, one for each. The other portrait is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London. It was purchased by Doris Duke in 1963 and was her first major purchase of so-called “Old Master” paintings and added to her family’s collection of European portraiture.