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Dear hearts! Thank you all ever so much for all the love on my art! I've created a poster of it (on 100% recycled paper, so the tree fae wont beat me to death). Please check it out/ share if you can <3

The Bear 🍴

The rockrose and the thistle

Will whistle as you moan

I could try to calm you down

But I know you won't

Thank you all for your support on this painting!

On the west wall of this stupendous room is an enormous portrait of the family that owned and created it. Almost seventeen feet wide and eleven deep, Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, and his Family c.1635 is the largest painting ever made by van Dyck, a joint portrait of the 4th Earl of Pembroke and his children. Each of the ten figures it portrays is just larger than lifesize and they dominate, as they were meant to, the gilded space in front of them. The painting is full of grace and aristocratic poise, of riches at ease with themselves, of what now would be called privilege and was then considered nobility. It exudes a distant and forgotten handsomeness, an abandoned world of elegance and power, neither stiff nor louche, but regal and familial.