Old Master Paintings
Old Master Paintings
Property from a Private Collection
After Sir Anthony van Dyck
Portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria (1609–1669)
Lot Closed
April 6, 02:47 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection
After Sir Anthony van Dyck
Portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria (1609–1669)
oil on canvas, oval
unframed: 69.5 x 59 cm.; 27⅜ x 23¼ in.
framed: 90 x 80 cm.; 35½ x 31½ in.
His sale ('The Property of the Right Hon. The Earl of Cork and Orrery, removed from Marston, Frome'), London, Christie's, 25 November 1905, lot 71 (as 'Van Dyck School'), for £68.5.0 to Dunthorne;
With Robert Dunthorne, The Rembrandt Gallery, Liverpool;
By whom sold, for £200 on 12 January 1906, to the grandfather of the present owner;
Thence by descent.
The present work is a bust-length copy after Van Dyck's full-length portrait from 1633 of Queen Henrietta Maria with Sir Jeffrey Hudson, which today hangs in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (inv. no. 1952.5.39).1 Van Dyck infused his portraits of the English royal family, including his depiction of Queen Henrietta Maria at age 24, with a tenderness and warmth of expression that fully convey the ideals of peace and harmony that underlay their philosophy of divine right to rule.