Property from a Distinguished Italian Collection
Gillis Claeissens
Portrait of a lady, half-length, wearing a black dress with white gold-trimmed sleeves
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July 2, 07:08 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Italian Collection
Gillis Claeissens
Bruges 1526–1605
Portrait of a lady, half-length, wearing a black dress with white gold-trimmed sleeves
oil on oak panel, the reverse with a wax seal with the armorials of the Veterani family of Urbino
unframed: 35.8 x 27.5 cm.; 14⅛ x 10⅞ in.
framed: 54.4 x 44 cm.; 21⅜ x 17⅜ in.
Probably Veterani family, Urbino (according to a wax seal affixed to the reverse of the panel);
With Sir George Donaldson, London;
From whom acquired by Ralph Brocklebank (1840–1921), Haughton Hall, Cheshire, in 1895;
His posthumous sale, London, Christie's, 7 July 1922, lot 78 (as follower of François Clouet), for £220–10s. to Gooden & Fox;
Anonymous sale, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 24 March 1952, lot 31 (as follower of François Clouet);
Anonymous sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 17 November 1982, lot 384 (as circle of François Clouet);
Where presumably acquired by the father of the present owner.
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and by deceased masters of the British School, 7 January – 16 March 1895, no. 181 (as François Clouet, Portrait of a Princess, lent by George Donaldson, Esq.).
R. Radcliffe Carter, Pictures and Engravings at Haughton Hall Tarporley, in the possession of Ralph Brocklebank, London 1904, pp. 46–47, no. 37 (as François Clouet).