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| Keywords: people groupshot costume indoor Philip Mould: This portrait is closely comparable to those that were being produced by Paul van Somer and his studio c.1615 - 1620; the composition particularly recalls his companion portraits of the Earl and Countess of Devonshire 1619 (North Carolina Museum of Art) and as with those which include a son and a daughter with father and mother respectively, this portrait was most probably paired with a painting of Mr Phesant and his son. It is presently uncertain which members of the family are depicted in the present portrait.The armigerous Phesant family was clearly established in Ireland by the turn of the seventeenth century, and entries at the office of the Ulster King of Arms record the deaths of Amy Phesant in 1622 and Mary Phesant in 1633, the wives of Thomas Phesant of Donnybrook Co. Dublin and of his second son Thomas respectively. Philip Mould: This portrait is closely comparable to those that were being produced by Paul van Somer and his studio c.1615 - 1620; the composition particularly recalls his companion portraits of the Earl and Countess of Devonshire 1619 (North Carolina Museum of Art) and as with those which include a son and a daughter with father and mother respectively, this portrait was most probably paired with a painting of Mr Phesant and his son. It is presently uncertain which members of the family are depicted in the present portrait.The armigerous Phesant family was clearly established in Ireland by the turn of the seventeenth century, and entries at the office of the Ulster King of Arms record the deaths of Amy Phesant in 1622 and Mary Phesant in 1633, the wives of Thomas Phesant of Donnybrook Co. Dublin and of his second son Thomas respectively. | ||||
