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Lot 55TP

Circle of Sir Anthony van Dyck
(Antwerp 1599-1641 Blackfriars)
Portrait of Lady Penelope Herbert, née Naunton, later Countess of Pembroke, three-quarter-length, in a blue dress and brown wrap in a carved and giltwood frame

6 December 2017, 15:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Circle of Sir Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp 1599-1641 Blackfriars)

Portrait of Lady Penelope Herbert, née Naunton, later Countess of Pembroke, three-quarter-length, in a blue dress and brown wrap
oil on canvas
124.8 x 97.7cm (49 1/8 x 38 7/16in).
in a carved and giltwood frame

Footnotes

Provenance
Probably James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Hamilton Palace, before 1643, and thence by descent until
Their sale, Christie's, Hamilton Palace, 17 June 1882, lot 1085 (as Sir Peter Lely, bt. Duncan for £73 10s)
Collection of Christopher Beckett Dennison, Grosvenor Street, London
His sale, Christie's, London, 13 June 1885, lot 899 (as Sir Peter Lely)
Private Collection, UK, since 1942

Literature
Probably Hamilton Palace Inventory, circa 1643, no. 294, as 'One peice (sp) of the Lady Herbert to the knees with a scarfe flying over her shouldier (sp), a coppy (sp) after Sr Anthony'.

Van Dyck had probably painted a three-quarter-length portrait of Lady Penelope before he was commissioned to paint the full-length at Wilton House. It is also recorded in a small early copy at Burghley House (on panel, 37.1 x 29.2 cm.) and in the engraving that Pierre Lombard executed in the middle of the 17th Century for his series of Countesses.

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