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The Woburn Abbey Collection is an internationally renowned British private collection, established over 400 years by successive Earls and Dukes of Bedford, and their family. It contains an important group of Dutch and Flemish paintings, formed from the seventeenth to early nineteenth century, with a great variety of painters represented working across genres. These include the superb head study Portrait of a bearded old man (1643), an authenticated Rembrandt, as well as portraits by Frans Hals and Van Dyck, including the latter’s double portrait of Daniel Mytens and his wife and eight examples of other sitters. In addition, the subject and genre paintings include impressive works by Aelbert Cuyp and Jan van de Cappelle, and lively subject pictures by Jan Steen and David Teniers, to name a few.
Matthew Hirst, Curator, and Victoria Poulton, Deputy Curator (June 2024)