LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Measurements:
15.43 in. (39.20 cm.) (height) by 11.46 in. (29.10 cm.) (width)
Exhibited:
Bath, Holburne Museum, 1926-28, on loan;. London, Royal Academy,. Dutch Art 1450-1900 , 4 January - 9 March 1929, no. 243 (as Gerard ter Borch);. Bristol, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery,. Art treasures of the West Country , 25 May - 26 June 1937, no. 13 (as Gerard ter Borch);. London, Royal Academy,. Dutch Pictures 1450-1750 , 1952-53, no. 396 (as Gerard ter Borch, possibly a portrait of Andries de Graeff
Literature:
G. Waagen,. Treasures of Art in Great Britain , London 1854, vol. III, p. 177 (as Terburg);. C. Hofstede de Groot, . A catalogue raisonné.. , London 1913, vol. V, p. 110, cat. no. 344c (as Gerard ter Borch);. A.W. and C.M. Vivian-Neal, . Poundisford Park, Somerset: A catalogue of pictures and furniture , Taunton 1939, pp. 31-32, cat. no. 58 (as Gerard ter Borch);. S.J. Gudlaugsson,. Gerard Ter Borch , The Hague 1959-60, vol. II, p. 226, cat. no. 262a, reproduced plate XXI, fig. 1 (as Michiel van Musscher (?), free after ter Borch, . circa 1678);. A. van Suchtelen, in B. Broos and A. van Suchtelen (eds), . Portraits in the Mauritshuis 1430-1790 , The Hague 2004, pp. 53 and 54, n. 12, under cat. no. 7, reproduced p. 53, fig. 7c (as After Gerard ter Borch
Provenance:
John Vivian (1756-1828), Claverton Manor, Bath, by 1854;. Thence by descent to his second son George Vivian (1798-1873), Claverton Manor, Bath;. Thence by descent to his daughter, Cecily Marjory Vivian-Neal (1889-1970), Poundisford, near Taunton;. By whom sold, London, Christie's, 15 July 1955, lot 89, for £900 to Lyon (as Gerard ter Borch, Portrait of a member of the de Graeff family);. Sale, Stockholm, Bukowski's, 15 April 1959, lot 218;. Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Gentleman'), London, Christie's, 27 June 1969, lot 85 (as Gerard ter Borch, Portrait of Andries de Graeff);. Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Paul Brandt, 11 May 1971, lot 8 (as Gerard ter Borch), where acquired by the father of the present owners;. Thence by descent