Important Old Master Paintings

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Lot 111
  • 111

Attributed to Sir Anthony van Dyck Antwerp 1599 - 1641 London

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Description

  • Anthony van Dyck
  • Portrait of a Monk of the Benedictine Order, Holding a Skull
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

J.W. Boynton;
Lionel Seymour William Dawson-Damar, 4th Earl of Portarlington (1832-1892);
Thence by descent to George Lionel Yuill Seymour Dawson-Damar, 7th Earl of Portarlington (b. 1938);
By whom sold, London, Christie's, 23 January 1976, lot 75 (as Van Dyck), whence acquired by the present owner. 

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters. Winter Exhibition, 1882, no. 165 ("A Monk [artist] unknown"), lent by the Earl of Portarlington.