Although he painted a large number of compositions based on religious, allegorical, and literary themes, such as the renowned Rinaldo and Armida (1629), on view in this gallery, van Dyck is chiefly remembered for this portraiture of which the Museum has two examples, Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (1628), also on view in this wing, and this portrait of the Marchioness of Worcester. Painted not long before the artist’s death, the likeness displays his late style in the sensitive modeling of the subject’s features and in the elaborate, sumptuous treatment of her dress. At one time, the portrait belonged to Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745), Britain’s first prime minister, who formed an impressive collection of paintings. Prior to its acquisition by Mary Frick Jacobs of Baltimore in 1912, it was in private collections in Moscow and Paris.