Property of a descendant of William Beckford & The Dukes of Hamilton
Flemish School, circa 1660 | Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, pointing at a painting, traditionally said to be Gonzales Coques
Lot Closed
January 14, 02:32 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of a descendant of William Beckford & The Dukes of Hamilton
Flemish School, circa 1660
Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, pointing at a painting, traditionally said to be Gonzales Coques
oil on copper
unframed: 16 x 12.8 cm.; 6 1/4 x 5 in.
framed: 30.5 x 26.7 cm.; 12 x 10 1/2 in.
His daughter Susan Euphemia, Duchess of Hamilton (1786-1859);
Her granddaughter, Lady Mary Louise (1884-1957), only child and principal heir of William Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, 12th Duke of Hamilton, who married in 1906 James Graham (1878-1954), Marquis of Graham who in 1925 succeeded his father as 6th Duke of Montrose;
Thence by descent.
Although previously thought to be a self-portrait by Gonzales Coques, this attribution is no longer accepted, nor does the sitter resemble the artist. Based on the style of the ruff, the painting can be dated to circa 1657-60, at which date Coques was just over forty years old and captured his likeness in a self-portrait, today in the State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.1 Comparison between the Saint Petersburg picture and this one makes it clear that the sitter depicted here is not Coques.
We are grateful to Drs Marion Lisken-Pruss, Rudi Ekkart and Claire van den Donk for their help with the cataloguing of this painting.
1 M. Lisken-Pruss, Gonzales Coques. Der kleine Van Dyck, Turnhout 2013, pp. 243-44, cat. no. 32, reproduced p. 421.