LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

42.91 in. (109.00 cm.) (height) by 45.51 in. (115.60 cm.) (width)

Literature:

M. Clark and N. Penny, The Arrogant Connoisseur.., 1982, p. 101, and p. 1080, no. 49. S. Barnes in N. De Poorter et al., Van Dyck, A Complete Catalogue of Paintings, 2004, under no. II, 30 ('by a later artist', an opinion which she has since revised, see below).

Provenance:

with Noël Desenfans (1744-1807), London, until circa 1783, when acquired by. Richard Payne Knight (1751-1824) (The Diary of Joseph Farington, ed. K. Garlick and A. McIntyre, New Haven and London, IV, 1979, pp. 1158-1160), for 30 gns. (price recorded by Farington and by Elisabeth Inglis Jones in a manuscript list based on the Payne Knight papers), and then probably on display at Downton Castle, Shropshire (E.W. Brayley and J. Briton, The Beauties of England and Wales.., London, VI, 1808, p. 553: 'The interior of Downton Castle is fitted up with great taste and elegance; and some of the apartments are decorated with a few select pictures by the most eminent masters'), and thus not known to John Smith when compiling his catalogue raisonné of the works of Van Dyck published in 1831; and by descent at Downton Castle and elsewhere to the vendor.