Master Paintings Part II
Master Paintings Part II
Property from a Private Collection, New England
Godfried Schalcken
Portrait of a young girl, believed to be Anne Conslade, wearing a blue dress with a brown mantle and holding an orange
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January 30, 05:13 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Property from a Private Collection, New England
Godfried Schalcken
Made, near Breda 1643 - 1706 The Hague
Portrait of a young girl, believed to be Anne Conslade, wearing a blue dress with a brown mantle and holding an orange
signed lower left: G. Schalcken
oil on canvas
unframed: 49 1/8 by 39 1/8 in.; 124.7 by 99.4 cm.
framed: 58 1/2 by 48 1/2 in.; 148.6 by 123.2 cm.
With Peter Tillou, Litchfield, Connecticut, by circa 1968;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 13 July 1979, lot 111;
There acquired (or shortly thereafter) by a private English collector;
Thence by descent in the family until 2016;
From whom acquired by Johnny van Haeften;
From whom acquired by the present owner, 2017.
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 13 July 1979, lot 111;
There acquired (or shortly thereafter) by a private English collector;
Thence by descent in the family until 2016;
From whom acquired by Johnny van Haeften;
From whom acquired by the present owner, 2017.
T. Beherman, Godfried Schalcken, Paris 1988, p. 200, cat. no. 99, reproduced (as location unknown and as dated circa 1692-1699);
W. Franits, Godefridus Schalcken: A Dutch Painter in Late Seventeenth-Century London, Amsterdam 2018, pp. 168-169, cat. no. A17, reproduced fig. 85.
W. Franits, Godefridus Schalcken: A Dutch Painter in Late Seventeenth-Century London, Amsterdam 2018, pp. 168-169, cat. no. A17, reproduced fig. 85.
Godfried Schalcken trained as an artist in Leiden under Gerrit Dou and went on to spend the early years of his career as an independent artist in Dordrecht where, after Nicolaes Maes' departure to Amsterdam, he became the most sought after portrait painter. It is during this period that he became internationally famous for his subtle rendering of various kinds of natural and artificial light. In May 1692 Godfried Schacken moved his family to London where they remained until the summer of 1696. In England he painted mainly portraits and candle lit scenes, and this endearing portrait, said to be of Anne Conslade, is dated to this English period. The orange is a symbol of fertility, and so one can suppose that this portrait anticipated the marriage of the young sitter. The orange was also a sign of wealth: the fruit was loved by the English gentry and was grown in many country houses which will each have required a greenhouse to maintain the trees through winter.