Portrait of Lady Theresa Shirley

Portrait of Lady Shirley
Portrait of Lady Shirley
Artist	Anthony van Dyck
Year	1622
Dimensions	200 cm × 133.4 cm (79 in × 52.5 in)
Location	Petworth House, Petworth, West Sussex, England

ArtistAnthony van Dyck

Year1622

Dimensions200 cm × 133.4 cm (79 in × 52.5 in)

LocationPetworth House, Petworth, West Sussex, England

The Portrait of Lady Shirley is a 1622 painting by Sir Anthony van Dyck, a Flemish Baroque artist. It is a portrait of Teresa Sampsonia (1589–1668), a Circassian noblewoman of the Safavid Empire of Iran. She was the wife of Elizabethan English adventurer Robert Shirley, whom she accompanied on his travels and embassies across Europe in the name of the Safavid King (Shah) Abbas the Great (r. 1588–1629). Numerous sketches of the couple appear in van Dyck's Italian Sketchbooks.^[1]

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List of paintings
Religious subjects	Entry of Christ into Jerusalem (1617) Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John and Saint Mary Magdalene (1617–1619) Saint Martin Dividing his Cloak (1618) The Brazen Serpent (c. 1618–1620) The Apostle Matthew (c. 1618–1620) The Crowning with Thorns (1618–1620) The Betrayal of Christ (1618–1620) Bristol Madrid Minneapolis Saint Ambrose barring Theodosius from Milan Cathedral (c. 1619–1620) Samson and Delilah 1620 1630 Susanna and the Elders (c. 1631–1632) Madonna and Child (1621–1627) The Mocking of Christ (1628–1630) The Coronation of Saint Rosalia (1629) The Vision of the Blessed Hermann Joseph (1629–1630) Madonna and Child with Two Donors (1630) Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1630) Crucifixion (1630) The Resurrection (1631–1632) Madonna with Partridges (1632) Deposition / Lamentation over the Dead Christ 1615 1618 1619 1629 1629–1630 1634 1635 1640
Saint Rosalia series (1624–1625)	Houston London Madrid New York Ponce Palermo (studio work) Munich (autograph or studio)
Mythological subjects	Drunken Silenus (1620) Jupiter and Antiope (1620) Diana and a Nymph Surprised by a Satyr (1622–1627) The Shepherd Paris (1628) Thetis Receiving the Weapons of Achilles from Hephaestus (1630–1632) Venus Asks Vulcan to Forge Arms for her Son Aeneas (1630–1632) Cupid and Psyche (1638–1640)
Portraits	Cornelis van der Geest (1620) Theresa Shirley (1622) Robert Shirley (1622) Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio (c. 1623) The Lomellini Family (c. 1625–1627) Gaston, Duke of Orléans (1632 or 1634) Charles I with M. de St Antoine (1633) Equestrian Portrait of Francisco de Moncada (1634) Francisco de Moncada (1634) Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano (1634) Charles I at the Hunt (c. 1635) Charles I in Three Positions (1635 or 1636) The Three Eldest Children of Charles I (Turin) (1635) The Three Eldest Children of Charles I (Royal Collection) (1636) Equestrian Portrait of Charles I (1637–1638) Triple Portrait of Henrietta Maria (1638) Mary Hill, Lady Killigrew (1638) William Killigrew (1638) Queen Henrietta Maria as St Catherine (1639) Luigia Cattaneo-Gentile (c. 1622) Magistrates of Brussels (Preparatory sketch) (1634–1635) Olivia Porter (1630s) Mary Villiers, Lady Herbert of Shurland (c. 1636) Lord John Stuart and his Brother, Lord Bernard Stuart (c. 1638)
Self-portraits	Vienna (1613–1614) New York (1620–1621) Self-Portrait with a Sunflower (1632–1633) Self-portrait with Sir Endymion Porter (1635) London (1640)
Other paintings	A Soldier on Horseback (c. 1616) Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsenna (c. 1618–1620)
Related	Hendrick van Balen the Elder (master) Peter Paul Rubens (master) Paul de Vos (collaborator) Van Dyke beard

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