| General information |
| Original location |
Antwerp (see remarks) |
| Current location |
Münster, LWL-Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, inv. no. 2012 LM |
| Artist |
Ludger tom Ring the Younger (attributed on stylistic grounds) |
| Date |
1564 |
| Material |
Oil on panel |
| Dimensions |
12,4 x 12 cm |
| Visual elements |
| Short description |
Round portrait of a bearded man, bust, turned to the right, looking to the viewer. |
| Depicted pilgrim |
| Personal information |
| Name |
Richard Clough (based on other portraits) |
| Year of birth |
ca. 1522 (derived from age mentioned on paiting) |
| Place of birth |
Denbigh, Wales |
| Social status / profession |
Son of a glove maker, who moved to London at a young age; ca. 1552: Factor in the service of Thomas Gresham, English royal agent; From 1557 based in Antwerp for Gresham; Regular reporter on political and diplomatic issues for Gresham and William Cecil, Lord Burghley; Involved in the acquisition of Flemish paintings for the English court; 1567: Marriage with Katherine Tudor (Katheryn of Berain); 1567: Return to Wales |
| Text |
On both sides of the head: Anno 1564, Aetatis 42 |
| Other known portraits |
- Ludger tom Ring the Younger, Half-length portrait of Richard Clough, 1564 (Berlin, Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen, inv. no. M 511)
- Ludger tom Ring the Younger, Kitchen piece with the Wedding in Kana (lost in 1945, formerly Berlin, Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum) with two miniature portraits of the painter and the presumed commissioner Richard Clough
- Unknown artist, Portrait of Richard Clough, ca. 1564 (Auction Christie's, 1931, current location unknown)
- Unknown artist, Portrait of Richard Clough, ca.1564 (Private Collection)
All these portraits are considered to be the same person based on distinct facial features and the mentions of year and age on the paintings. The identification of the sitter as Richard Clough is based on an eighteenth-century engraving after the latter portrait (see there for more information). |
| Pilgrimages |
| Year of pilgrimage to Jerusalem |
before 1552 (Clough is mentioned to have made the pilgrimage in his London years) |
| Attributes Jerusalem pilgrimage |
Small Jerusalem cross on the left side of his head |
| Death |
| Year of death |
1570 |
| Place of death |
Hamburg |
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| Additional information |
Richard Clough lived in Antwerp when the portrait was made, which makes it likely that the painting also was placed somewhere in that city. This also makes it likely that Ludger tom Ring the Younger lived and worked in Antwerp for some time between 1557 and 1569, a period in which his place of residence was formerly unknown. Moreoever, he made at least two more paintings for Richard Clough, and stylistic features of paintings attributed to his hand from this period also point to an Antwerp connection.
Richard Clough wrote a famous account of the Iconoclastic Fury in Antwerp in 1566 in a letter. |
| Literature |
- Blanchard, Ian,
Clough, Richard , in Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison with the British Academy (eds.), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. From the Earliest Time to the Year 2000 (Oxford 2004), vol. 12, pp. 207-209
- Cooper, Tarnya, Citizen Portrait. Portrait Painting and the Urban Elite of Tudor and Jacobean England and Wales (New Haven and London 2012), p. 92
- Lorenz, Angelika (ed.), Die Maler tom Ring, 2 vols. (Münster 1996), vol. 2, pp. 454 (cat. 108), 614 (WVZ 147)
- Luckhardt, Jochen, Das
Küchenstück von Ludger tom Ring d. J. (1562): Kunst in Antwerpen zwischen Münster und Braunschweig (Braunschweig 2013)
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