Hans Eworth

Portrait of Joan Thornbury, Mrs Richard Wakeman | 《瓊・桑伯里，理查德・韋克曼夫人肖像》

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December 10, 06:47 PM GMT

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400,000 - 600,000 GBP

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Property from a British Private Collection

英國私人收藏

Hans Eworth

漢斯・埃沃思

Antwerp 1515 - 1574 London

Portrait of Joan Thornbury, Mrs Richard Wakeman

《瓊・桑伯里，理查德・韋克曼夫人肖像》

signed with monogram, upper right: HE; and inscribed: MY CHYLDHODDE PAST THAT BEWTIFIID MY FLESSHE / AND GONNE MY YOVTH THAT GAVE ME COLOR FRESSHE / Y AM NOW CVM TO THOS RYPE YERIS AT LAST / THAT TELLES ME HOWE MY WANTON DAYS BE PAST / AND THEREFORE FRINDE SO TVRNES THE TYME ME / Y ONS WAS YOVNG AND NOWE AM AS YOV SEE / AETATIS XXXVI / M.D.LXVI.

款識：藝術家簽姓名縮寫HE（右上）並題款：MY CHYLDHODDE PAST THAT BEWTIFIID MY FLESSHE / AND GONNE MY YOVTH THAT GAVE ME COLOR FRESSHE / Y AM NOW CVM TO THOS RYPE YERIS AT LAST / THAT TELLES ME HOWE MY WANTON DAYS BE PAST / AND THEREFORE FRINDE SO TVRNES THE TYME ME / Y ONS WAS YOVNG AND NOWE AM AS YOV SEE / AETATIS XXXVI / M.D.LXVI.

oil on panel

油彩畫板

92.4 x 70.7 cm.; 36 ½ x 28 in.

92.4 x 70.7 公分；36 ½ x 28 英寸

Oliver Vernon Watney (1902–1966), Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire;

Sold by order of his executors, London, Christie's, 7 July 1967, lot 63, for 12,000 guineas, where acquired by the present owner.

R.W. Goulding, ‘Notes on Additional HE Portraits’, in The Walpole Society, vol. III, 1914, p. 118;

V.J.W., A Catalogue of Pictures and Miniatures at Cornbury, 1915, p. 24 (82);

E. Auerbach, ‘Holbein's Followers in England’, in The Burlington Magazine, vol. XCIII, 1951, p. 48, reproduced fig. 14;

R. Strong, Hans Eworth. A Tudor Artist and his Circle, exh. cat., Leicester 1965, no. 18, p. 9, reproduced pl. 9;

R. Strong, The English Icon: Elizabethan & Jacobean Portraiture, New York and London 1969, p. 97, no. 41, reproduced;

L. Cowan Orlin, Locating Privacy in Tudor London, Oxford 2008, pp. 51–52, reproduced fig. 1.11;

T. Cooper and H. Walker, ‘Talent and Adversity. A reassessment of the life and works of Hans Eworth in Antwerp and London’, in T. Cooper et al., Painting in Britain 1500-1630, Oxford 2015, p. 238, reproduced.

H. Walker, ‘Hans Eworth Catalogue Raisonné’, p. 12, no. 37, in Hans Eworth & the London Stranger Painters, online.

London, Royal Academy, Works by Holbein and other Masters of the 16th and 17th centuries, 1950–51, no. 52;

Manchester, Coronation Exhibition, 1953, no. 45;

Leicester, City Art Gallery, Hans Eworth, A Tudor Artist and his Circle, 10–28 November 1965, no. 18 (lent by Oliver Watney);

London, National Portrait Gallery, Hans Eworth, A Tudor Artist and his Circle, 14 December 1965 – 9 January 1966, no. 18 (lent by Oliver Watney).