Landscape with St George and the Dragon

Agented by Endymion Porter in Antwerp 1634-5. Note that the match with the Sale Inventory is uncertain.

"in which he [Rubens] hath exceeded himself" (Joseph Mede)

Van der Doort c.1639

Sir Peter Paul Rubens

The great St George, containing [-] figures

Walpole Society reference (1960): 
WS 171, № 1
Provenance: 
Endymion Porter
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited: 
bought
Hang notes: 
placed a while since in the King's Breakfast Chamber
Room description extended: 
in store at Whitehall in the Passage Room between Banqueting House and Privy Lodgings
Original Manuscript page number: 
MS. Ash. 1514, f. 172
Identification certainty: 
Identified
Sale Inventory c.1649-51

Rubens