Old Master & British Works on Paper including works from the Collections of Carlos Alberto Cruz and the late Timothy Clowes

Old Master & British Works on Paper including works from the Collections of Carlos Alberto Cruz and the late Timothy Clowes

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 171. Portrait of William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1629-1663).

Property from the collection of the late Timothy Clowes

Alexander Cooper

Portrait of William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1629-1663)

Lot Closed

September 23, 04:25 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the collection of the late Timothy Clowes

Alexander Cooper

? London 1609 - circa 1660 Stockholm

Portrait of William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1629-1663)


Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum, gold bracelet frame, the white enameled reverse painted with the crowned initial W - surrounded by flowers, later associated green leather case

17 by 13 mm


By descent within the sitter's family;
Countess Charlotte Sophie Bentinck, née Aldenburg (1715-1800);
by family descent until;
Timothy, 12th Earl of Portland (b. 1953);
sale, London, Sotheby’s, 30 June 1980, lot 256
A portrait of the sitter's father Prince William V of Hesse-Kassel (1602-1637) by Alexander Cooper was sold at Sotheby's, London, 4 December 2020, lot 92 (£8,820).