LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

23.50 in. (59.70 cm.) (height) by 18.62 in. (47.30 cm.) (width)

Condition:

held in an important seventeenth century Italianate Mannerist style English frame

Exhibited:

London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Old Masters from Jersey Collections, 1952, no. 11; London, National Portrait Gallery, Van Dyck in England, 1982, no. 65; London, Tate Gallery, Van Dyck in Britain, 2009, no. 67;

Literature:

G. Gluck, 'Reflections on Van Dyck's Early Death,' The Burlington Magazine, 1941, vol. 79, no. 465, p. 194; Possibly, 'Sir Peter Lely's Collection,' Editorial, The Burlington Magazine, August 1943, p. 187; E. Larsen, L'Opera Completa di Van Dyck, Milan, 1980, no. 757; E. Larsen, The Paintings of Anthony van Dyck, Freren, 1988, Vol. II, no. 1018; R. Davids, The Artist as a Portrait, London 2000, p. 48; E.E.S. Gordenker, Anthony van Dyck and the Representation of Dress in Seventheenth Century Portraiture, Brepols 2001, pp. 61, 118 no. 126; S Barnes, N de Poorter, O Millar, H Vey, Van Dyck: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, Yale & London, 2004, no. IV.5, p. 432

Provenance:

Possibly in the collection of Sir Peter Lely, d. 1680; Possibly his sale 18th April 1682 (bt. by Lord Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford (1619-1708) for £34); Richard Graham (fl. 1695-1727) until sold in his sale, Peletier London, 6 March 1712, lot 41, bt by Sir Francis Child the Younger (1684-1740); by descent to his nephew Robert Child (1739-1782) of Osterley Park; by descent to his grand-daughter Lady Sarah Sophia Fane (1785-1867) who married George Child-Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey and 8th Viscount Grandison (1773-1859) of Osterley Park, Middlesex and Middleton Park, Oxfordshire; by descent