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Sir Anthony van Dyck

Portrait of Lucas Van Uffel

Auction Closed

December 7, 05:45 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Sir Anthony van Dyck

Antwerp 1599 - 1641 London

Portrait of Lucas Van Uffel

oil on oak panel, en grisaille

20.3 x 16.2 cm.; 8 x 6⅜in.

Please note that the last two lines of Provenance should read as follows, and not as stated in the printed catalogue: With Thomas Gibson, London; From whom acquired, 27 November 2001 (with the benefit of a settlement agreement with the heirs of A S Drey), by the late collector.

Rudolf Kann, Paris (1845–1905) (according to Held 1990);

Dr. Gottlieb Friedrich Reber (1880–1959), Lugano;

E.D. Reber, Munich, 1925;

With Julius Sperling, Munich, 1930;

With Hermann Abels, Cologne, 1931;

With A.S. Drey, Munich;

Drey Sale, Berlin, Graupe, 17-18 June 1936, lot 12 (involuntary liquidation of assets);

Mrs J. Patten, England;

By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 4 April 1962, lot 35, for £4,000 to Agnew;

With Thomas Agnew & Sons, London;

N.N. Embiricos, London;

By whom offered, London, Christie's, 13 December 2000, lot 26, but withdrawn before sale;

With Thomas Gibson, London;

From whom acquired, 27 November 2001 (with the benefit of a settlement agreement with the heirs of A S Drey), by the late collector.

G. Glück, Van Dyck: des Meisters Gemälde (Klassiker der Kunst), Stuttgart and Berlin 1931, p. 533, under nos 126 and 127;

L. van Puyvelde, in Le Siècle de Rubens, exh. cat., Brussels 1965, pp. 62–63, under no. 61;

M. Jaffé, 'Van Dyck's sketches for his portraits of Duquesnoy and Van Uffel', in Bulletin des Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 1967, pp. 160–61, reproduced;

O. Millar, 'Van Dyck at Agnews', in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 110, 1968, p. 712 ('has the brilliance of the best of the Iconography sketches');

J.S. Held, The collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Flemish and German paintings of the 17th century, Detroit 1982, p. 30;

W.A. Liedke, Flemish Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1984, p. 59 (as attributed to Van Dyck);

S.J. Barnes, Van Dyck in Italy, doctoral diss., New York University, 1986, pp. 257–8, no. 42;

E. Larsen, The Paintings of Van Dyck, Freren 1988, vol. II, p. 171, no. 149, reproduced;

J.S. Held, in Anthony van Dyck, exh. cat., Washington 1990, pp. 339–41, no. 92, reproduced;

H. Vey, in S.J. Barnes, N. de Porter. O. Millar and H. Vey, Van Dyck, A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, New Haven and London 2004, pp. 208–09, no. II.69, reproduced in colour.

Kings Lynn, Fermoy Art Gallery, Exhibition of Pictures by Sir Anthony van Dyck, 27 July – 10 August 1963, no. 16;

London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, Sir Anthony van Dyck, 7 November – 7 December 1968, no. 34;

Washington, National Gallery of Art, Anthony van Dyck, 11 November 1990 – 24 February 1991, no. 92.