LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

24.25 in. (61.60 cm.) (height) by 19.02 in. (48.30 cm.) (width)

Literature:

E. Pelinck, in Jaarboekje voor Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde van Leiden en Rijnland, XXXIII, 1941, p. 198. R.E.O. Ekkart, in his Supplement to H. Schneider, Jan Lievens. Sein Leben und seine Werke, revised ed., Amsterdam 1973, p. 353, no. S.375 (both the above referring to the 1640 Orlers inventory).

Provenance:

(Probably) Jan Jansz. Orlers (1570-1646), Leiden: listed in his 1640 inventory as portraying the keeper of the almshouse with a skull in his hand ('de coster vant Gasthuys meet een Dootshooft in den arm'). Barton Booth (1681-1733), and by descent to his widow, Hester Booth, née Santlow (c. 1690-1773), and by descent to her grandson,. Edward Eliot, later Craggs Eliot (1727-1804), 1st Baron Eliot of Saint Germans, and by descent at Port Eliot.