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George William Fox, 9th baron Kinnaird

Scottish, 1778 - 1878

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About two dozen, light-skinned men and more than a dozen horses tumble across a rocky shore along a body of water, all against a deep landscape in this horizontal painting. At the bottom center of the canvas, a bearded man, Saint Paul, wears a teal-blue tunic and coral-pink cape, and he lies sprawled across a short set of gray, stone steps, perhaps a fragment from a building. With his head to our left, his body is tipped toward us and his arms are raised, palms facing out, as he looks back and up. He wears a thick gold chain around his neck, and the gold hilt of a sword hangs from his gold belt. A round gold shield is propped on the steps, and other pieces of armor, including a silver helmet and sleeve, are strewn in the grass nearby. To our left, a man wearing a mustard-yellow tunic and teal-blue cape rides a rearing white horse. The rider clutches his own head with both hands. Behind this horse and rider, men wearing emerald green, butter yellow, peach, or blue and metal helmets struggle around brown or white horses. To the right of Saint Paul, a chestnut-brown horse crouches near the edge of a river, and several men and more horses flail in the water. A pebbled path running behind Saint Paul leads to a low, arched bridge that spans the river and extends off the right edge of the composition. Carrying billowing, triangular flags in pale peach, pink, and yellow, men ride and push at a pair of rearing horses on the bridge. To our right, the river winds through a deep, mountainous landscape. To our left, yet more men and horses spill down a flight of stone stairs leading up to a bank of parchment-white clouds that span the sky in the top third of the painting. A bearded, blond man at the upper left corner, wearing rose pink and royal blue, stretches out across the clouds to gesture with an open palm to the landscape below.
Jacopo Tintoretto, The Conversion of Saint Paul, c. 1544, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.43

The Conversion of Saint Paul

Jacopo Tintoretto · c. 1544 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1961.9.43

Shown from the hips up, a pale-skinned man with a Van Dyck beard stands with one hand on his hip in this vertical portrait painting. The man’s body faces our right almost in profile, but he turns his head to look at us from the corners of his brown eyes under lifted, black brows. The bridge of his nose is slightly flattened, and he has full pink lips, a pointed chin, and chin-length, wavy black hair. His mustache flares upward at the ends, and a line of hair grows down his chin. The wide brim of his hat would nearly have reached his shoulders, but it sits angled on the back of his head. Layers of white lace create a round collar resting on his chest over a black jacket. The coat is slashed over the chest and upper arms of the sleeves so the white shirt underneath is visible. The jacket is also partially unbuttoned over his torso. The cuff we can see reaches from his wrist along his forearm and is edged in lace. The back of that hand rests against that hip, and the cloth of a black cloak is bunched up around that hand. Black drapery fills most of the background but is pulled back to our right to reveal a landscape with a sunset-streaked sky.
Flemish 17th century, Jan Cossiers, Portrait of a Man in a Wide-Brimmed Hat, early 1630s, oil on panel, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1969.2.1

Portrait of a Man in a Wide-Brimmed Hat

Flemish 17th century, Jan Cossiers · early 1630s · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1969.2.1