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

Description

Property from an English Private Collection

Sir Anthony van Dyck

Antwerp 1599 - 1641 London

Portrait of Thomas Wentworth, 1^st Earl of Strafford (1593-1641)

oil on canvas

49 ½ by 39 ½ in.; 125.7 by 101 cm.

Possibly Sir Roland Egerton, 1st Bt., of Oulton Park, M.P. (d.1646);
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.

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).

London, British Institution, 1820, no. 45;
London, British Institution, 1864, no. 31;
London, Grosvenor Gallery, Van Dyck Exhibition, 1886-87;
Leeds City Art Gallery, Works by the Old Masters, 1889.