SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK

The Lady in Red

Oil on canvas:

39 ½ by 33 ¼ ;

100.3 by 84.5 cm

PROVENANCE

Edward Harman, Clay Hill, Enfield;

His sale, London, Christie's, 27 May 1847, lot 225, for 2 guineas to Bulwer (as 'Countess of Derby');

William Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer (1801–72);

Thence by inheritance to Colonel E. A. Bulwer, Bourne House, Weeford, Lichfield;

By whom sold, London, Christie's, 1 July 1921, lot 19, for 245 guineas to Gooden and Fox (as 'Countess of Pembroke');

With Gooden and Fox, London;

Sir Sidney Herbert, 1st Bt. (1890–1939);

His posthumous sale, London, Christie's, 28 July 1939, lot 44, for 1,050 guineas to Speelman and Agnew (as 'Countess of Pembroke');

With Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd., London, by 1968 (inv. no. 10403), by whom sold to

William Urwick Goodbody (1883–1949), Invergarry House, Invernesshire;

Thence by inheritance to his daughter, Mrs T. E. Nelson, Achnacloich, Connel, Argyllshire.

EXHIBITED

King's Lynn, Fermoy Art Gallery, Exhibition of pictures by Sir Anthony van Dyck, 1599–1641, 27 July – 10 August 1963, no. 28;

London, Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd., Sir Anthony van Dyck, a loan exhibition of pictures and sketches principally from private collections, 7 November – 7 December 1968, no. 59 (as 'Elizabeth Cecil, Countess of Devonshire'; lent by Mrs J. Y. Nelson).

LITERATURE

T. Borenius, 'Addenda to the Work of Van Dyck', in The Burlington Magazine, vol. LXXIX, 1941, pp. 200–03;

E. Larsen, The paintings of Anthony van Dyck, Freren 1988, vol. II, pp. 329–30, cat. no. 839, reproduced p. 330 (as 'Elizabeth, Countess of Devonshire');

O. Millar, in S. J. Barnes et al., Van Dyck. A complete catalogue of the paintings, New Haven and London 2004, p. 625, cat. no. IV.259, reproduced.