Duke of Buccleuch collection explained

The art collection of the Duke of Buccleuch 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 including furniture, porcelain, armour, jewellery and silverwork. The vast majority of the collection is divided between three principal locations: Bowhill House, Drumlanrig Castle, both in Scotland, and Boughton House in England.

Collection

Paintings and drawing

Dutch School

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)

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

Brueghel, Jan (the Younger)

Anthony van Dyck - 3x paintings and 40 grisaille portraits (painted for 'The Iconograph, 1645)

Jan Gossaert, (known as Jan Mabuse)

David Teniers the Younger - 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 (Lorrain's earliest mythological scene) and A Seaport (Lorrain'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

Hans Holbein the Younger

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 - 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)

Gennari, Benedetto - 3 paintings

Granacci, Francesco - 1 painting

Guardi, Francesco - 8 paintings

Joli, Antonio - 1 painting

Leonardo da Vinci - 1 painting (Madonna of the Yarnwinder, c. 1501)

Mainardi, Sebastiano (known as Bastiano) - 1 painting

Carlo Maratta

Marieschi, Michele - 1 painting

Panini, Giovanni Paolo - 1 painting

Parmigianino - 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)