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Thomas Howard (1585-1646), 14th Earl of Arundel, 4th Earl of Surrey, and 1st Earl of Norfolk, an English patron of the arts known as the 'collector earl'. On the eve of the first English Civil War, in 1642, the earl’s Roman Catholic sympathies prompted him into self-imposed exile. After donating £54,000 to the king's cause, he ended his days living in a villa near Padua, Italy. Square detail of an engraving created in the 1700s after a portrait by Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641).
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