Live Auction 2282Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings, & Watercolors
Follower of Sir Anthony van Dyck
Lot 177 Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Saint Louis Art Museum

Follower of Sir Anthony van Dyck

Portrait of a gentleman, bust-length

Closed27 January 2010

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Follower of Sir Anthony van Dyck
Portrait of a gentleman, bust-length
oil on canvas, with paper extensions along the edges (2 in. approx.)
25 x 19½ in (63.5 x 49.5 cm.)
inscribed 'Vandyke. ipse pinx.t./Collection de Tallard (on the reverse)

(Possibly) Camille d'Hostun, Duc de Tallard (1652-1728).
(Reputedly) John Stratford, 1st Earl of Aldborough (1698-1777).
T. Best, England.
with Frank T. Sabin, London, by 1931.
with J.L. Galleries.
Sydney M. Shoenberg, Sr., St. Louis, by 1933, by whom gifted to the
Saint Louis Art Museum, 1952.

Specialist note

The attribution to Van Dyck and the identity of the sitter in this portrait have been debated. Most recently, Horst Vey has suggested that the head relates to a figure (second from the left) in the group portrait of magistrates, once installed in the town hall Brussels and now lost. While an oil sketch of that composition exists (op. cit., no. III169), no other preliminary works can be traced.