Property from an English Private Collection
Sir Anthony van Dyck
Portrait of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593-1641)
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January 28, 04:44 PM GMT
Estimate
700,000 - 1,000,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from an English Private Collection
Sir Anthony van Dyck
Antwerp 1599 - 1641 London
Portrait of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593-1641)
oil on canvas
49 ½ by 39 ½ in.; 125.7 by 101 cm.
Recorded at Oulton Park, in Cheshire, seat of the Egerton family, by 1732;
Thence by descent at Oulton to Sir John Grey-Egerton, 15th Bt. (1920-2008);
By whom sold ('The Property of Sir John Grey-Egerton, Bt."), London, Christies, 11 November 1994, lot 3 (as 'Studio of Sir Anthony van Dyck’);
Anonymous sale ("Property from a Private Collection"), London, Sotheby’s, 30 June 2005, lot 16 (as ‘Follower of Sir Anthony van Dyck’);
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's South Kensington, 6 July 2012, lot 46 (as "Follower of Sir Anthony van Dyck");
There acquired by the present owner.
London, British Institution, 1864, no. 31;
London, Grosvenor Gallery, Van Dyck Exhibition, 1886-87;
Leeds City Art Gallery, Works by the Old Masters, 1889.
J. Dallaway, An Account of all the Pictures exhibited in the Rooms of the British Institution from 1813 to 1823, London 1824, no. 45;
J. Smith, A catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, 9 vols., London 1831-1842, p. 170, no. 588.;
Descriptive catalogue of the Pictures and other Works of Art at Oulton Park, Cheshire, privately published 1864, pp. 20-22, no. 25;
E. Larsen, The Paintings of Anthony van Dyck, 2 vols., Freren 1988, vol. II, p. 393, no. 1004;
O. Millar, et al., Van Dyck. A complete catalogue of the paintings, New Haven and London 2004, p. 597, under no. IV. 214;
ENGRAVED
By O. Lacour (fl. circa 1886-1891).