LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on oak panel

Measurements:

10.00 in. (25.40 cm.) (height) by 5.98 in. (15.20 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

inscribed on the donor's gloves with his initials: RH and with his coat of arms on the prie-dieu

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy,. Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters , January - March. 1902, no. 5 (as Jean Bellegambe);. Bruges, Provinicaal Hof, Exposition des Primitifs Flamands et d'Art Ancien , 15 June - 5 October 1902, no. 310 (as Gilles Claeis); . Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, Paintings and Tapestries from Lockinge House, Wantage , 1945-52, no. 6 (as attributed to Claeis); . Bruges, Musée Communale Groenige-Bruges, L'Art Flamand dans les collections Britanniques et la Galerie Nationale de Victoria , August-September 1956, no. 48 (as Peter Claeissens the Elder); . Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, on long term loan (as Peter Claeissens the Elder

Literature:

G. Redford,. Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures at Overstone Park (Lord Overstone's Collection) , 1877, p. 11, cat. no. 15 (as Memling);. A.G.Temple , Catalogue of the Pictures forming the Collection of Lord and Lady Wantage , 1902, pp. 8-10, cat. no. 12, reproduced (as attributed to Bellegambe or Claeis [sic]); . Guide to the Pictures at Lockinge House (A.T. Lloyd's Collection) , 1928, pp. 7-9 (as attributed to Claeis [sic]); . B. Dewilde, 'Gillis Claeissens: een 'onbekende' schilder uit het zestiende-eeuws Brugge. Aanzet tot reconstructie van zijn œuvre binnen de Claeissensgroep', in Revue Belge d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'art , vol. 78, 2009, pp. 54-59; . B. Dewilde and A. van Oosterwijk, 'Puzzling Art. Reconstructing the Claeissens's œuvre: Gillis Claeissens, Portraitist to the Bruges Beau Monde', in Forgotten Masters. Pieter Pourbus and Bruges. Painting from 1525 to 1625 , exhibition catalogue, Bruges, Groeningemuseum, 2017, pp. 41 n. 40, 267, reproduced fig. 24

Provenance:

Commissioned by Robert Holman, Abbot of Notre Dame des Dunes;. Mr Pennell; . His (anonymous) sale ('A small assemblage of Pictures of a High Class'), London, Christie's, 30 June 1832, lot 2 (as Hemmelinck), for £24.3s. to Coxe; . Samuel Jones Loyd, later 1st Baron Overstone (1796-1883), by whom acquired c. 1835 (according to the Guide to the Pictures at Lockinge House , 1928); . Thence by inheritance to his son-in-law Brigadier-General Robert Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage. VC, KCB, VD (1832-1901), Lockinge, Oxfordshire; . Thence by descent to the present owner