# The 1st Earl of Monmouth and his Family [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SOMER, Paulus van]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 227 x 217 cm ## Commentary The 1st Earl of Monmouth and his Family c. 1617 Oil on canvas, 227 x 217 cm National Portrait Gallery, London Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth \(1560?-1639\) was a courtier, royalist and politician. Monmouth is shown holding the white Chamberlain's rod, with, at the left, his wife Elizabeth Trevannion \(died 1641\), and his elder son Henry, later the 2nd Earl \(1596-1661\). At the right is his daughter Philadelphia \(1594-1654\), later Lady Wharton, and his younger son Thomas \(1597-1634\). ## Related artworks - [An Unknown Noblewoman]() - [Anne of Denmark]() - [Elizabeth Pierrepont, Countess of Kellie]() - [Elizabeth Wriothesley, née Vernon, Countess of Southampton]() - [George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham]() - [James I of England \(James VI of Scotland\)]() - [Sir Rowland Cotton]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()