Hans Eworth

Portrait of Joan Thornbury, Mrs Richard Wakeman | 《瓊・桑伯里，理查德・韋克曼夫人肖像》

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December 10, 06:47 PM GMT

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400,000 - 600,000 GBP

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Property from a British Private Collection

英國私人收藏

Hans Eworth

漢斯・埃沃思

Antwerp 1515 - 1574 London

Portrait of Joan Thornbury, Mrs Richard Wakeman

《瓊・桑伯里，理查德・韋克曼夫人肖像》

signed with monogram, upper right: HE; and inscribed: MY CHYLDHODDE PAST THAT BEWTIFIID MY FLESSHE / AND GONNE MY YOVTH THAT GAVE ME COLOR FRESSHE / Y AM NOW CVM TO THOS RYPE YERIS AT LAST / THAT TELLES ME HOWE MY WANTON DAYS BE PAST / AND THEREFORE FRINDE SO TVRNES THE TYME ME / Y ONS WAS YOVNG AND NOWE AM AS YOV SEE / AETATIS XXXVI / M.D.LXVI.

款識：藝術家簽姓名縮寫HE（右上）並題款：MY CHYLDHODDE PAST THAT BEWTIFIID MY FLESSHE / AND GONNE MY YOVTH THAT GAVE ME COLOR FRESSHE / Y AM NOW CVM TO THOS RYPE YERIS AT LAST / THAT TELLES ME HOWE MY WANTON DAYS BE PAST / AND THEREFORE FRINDE SO TVRNES THE TYME ME / Y ONS WAS YOVNG AND NOWE AM AS YOV SEE / AETATIS XXXVI / M.D.LXVI.

oil on panel

油彩畫板

92.4 x 70.7 cm.; 36 ½ x 28 in.

92.4 x 70.7 公分；36 ½ x 28 英寸

Oliver Vernon Watney (1902–1966), Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire;

Sold by order of his executors, London, Christie's, 7 July 1967, lot 63, for 12,000 guineas, where acquired by the present owner.

London, Royal Academy, Works by Holbein and other Masters of the 16th and 17th centuries, 1950–51, no. 52;

Manchester, Coronation Exhibition, 1953, no. 45;

Leicester, City Art Gallery, Hans Eworth, A Tudor Artist and his Circle, 10–28 November 1965, no. 18 (lent by Oliver Watney);

London, National Portrait Gallery, Hans Eworth, A Tudor Artist and his Circle, 14 December 1965 – 9 January 1966, no. 18 (lent by Oliver Watney).

R.W. Goulding, ‘Notes on Additional HE Portraits’, in The Walpole Society, vol. III, 1914, p. 118;

V.J.W., A Catalogue of Pictures and Miniatures at Cornbury, 1915, p. 24 (82);

E. Auerbach, ‘Holbein's Followers in England’, in The Burlington Magazine, vol. XCIII, 1951, p. 48, reproduced fig. 14;

R. Strong, Hans Eworth. A Tudor Artist and his Circle, exh. cat., Leicester 1965, no. 18, p. 9, reproduced pl. 9;

R. Strong, The English Icon: Elizabethan & Jacobean Portraiture, New York and London 1969, p. 97, no. 41, reproduced;

L. Cowan Orlin, Locating Privacy in Tudor London, Oxford 2008, pp. 51–52, reproduced fig. 1.11;

T. Cooper and H. Walker, ‘Talent and Adversity. A reassessment of the life and works of Hans Eworth in Antwerp and London’, in T. Cooper et al., Painting in Britain 1500-1630, Oxford 2015, p. 238, reproduced.

H. Walker, ‘Hans Eworth Catalogue Raisonné’, p. 12, no. 37, in Hans Eworth & the London Stranger Painters, online.