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Materials:

oil on panel

Size Notes:

panel: 17 1/8 by 13 in.; 43.5 by 33 cm.

Description:

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Markings:

Head study of Saint Anthony of Padua

Condition:

framed: 24 1/2 by 20 5/8 in.; 62.2 by 52.4 cm. To request a condition report for this lot, please contact Alison.MacQueen@sothebys.com.

Literature:

E. Larsen, The Paintings of Anthony van Dyck, Freren 1988, II, cat. no. 657, reproduced; S.J. Barnes et al., Van Dyck: A complete catalogue of the paintings, New Haven and London 2004, p. 275, under cat. no. III.38 (as not by Anthony van Dyck).

Provenance:

Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (1723-1792); Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. (1769-1830); John Knowles, Esq.; His posthumous sale, London, Christie's, 22 April 1842, lot 106 (for 8 gns.); There acquired by Nicholas W. Ridley-Colborne, 1st Baron Colborne (1778-1854), Norfolk; Thence by descent to his daughter, Henrietta Susannah, and by marriage to Sir William Brampton Gurdon, M.P. (1840-1911), Assington Hall, Suffolk; Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 19 March 1965, lot 24; There acquired by Thomas Agnew and Sons, London (inv. no. 26740); From whom acquired by C.G. Hoare, M.C., before 1968; Thence by descent; Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Gentleman"), New York, Christie's, 4 December 2012, lot 12; There acquired.