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Sir Anthony van Dyck

Head study of Saint Anthony of Padua

Auction Closed

January 27, 08:24 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Sir Anthony van Dyck

Antwerp 1599 - 1641 London

Head study of Saint Anthony of Padua


oil on panel

panel: 17 1/8 by 13 in.; 43.5 by 33 cm.  

framed: 24 1/2 by 20 5/8 in.; 62.2 by 52.4 cm.

Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (1723-1792);
Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. (1769-1830);
John Knowles, Esq.;
His posthumous sale, London, Christie's, 22 April 1842, lot 106 (for 8 gns.);
There acquired by Nicholas W. Ridley-Colborne, 1st Baron Colborne (1778-1854), Norfolk;
Thence by descent to his daughter, Henrietta Susannah, and by marriage to
Sir William Brampton Gurdon, M.P. (1840-1911), Assington Hall, Suffolk;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 19 March 1965, lot 24;
There acquired by Thomas Agnew and Sons, London (inv. no. 26740);
From whom acquired by C.G. Hoare, M.C., before 1968;
Thence by descent;
Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Gentleman"), New York, Christie's, 4 December 2012, lot 12;
There acquired.
E. Larsen, The Paintings of Anthony van Dyck, Freren 1988, II, cat. no. 657, reproduced;
S.J. Barnes et al., Van Dyck: A complete catalogue of the paintings, New Haven and London 2004, p. 275, under cat. no. III.38 (as not by Anthony van Dyck).