ATTRIBUTED TO LODEWIJK VAN DER HELST | PORTRAIT OF A LADY, HALF LENGTH, FACING LEFT, IN A WHITE RUFF

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 10 March 1950, lot 49 (as Van der Helst);

Private collection, Los Angeles, by 1976;

With Lane Fine Art, London;

From whom acquired.

J. van Ghent, Bartholomeus van der Helst (circa 1613-1670): een studie naar zijn leven en zijn werk, Zwolle 2011, p. 355, cat. no. A30, reproduced (under rejected attributions).

Lodewijck van der Helst trained with his father, Bartholomeus van der Helst, whose influence is recognizable in this painting. It is likely that the picture was originally signed L. vander. helst.f. and then later amended to read B ^[1].

^1. A test conducted by an outside restorer confirmed the signature is from the 17th century.