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Circle of Sir Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp 1599-1641 London)
Lot 190 PROPERTY OF A NOBLE FAMILY (LOTS 190 & 191)

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

Portrait of Mrs. Thomas Carey (d. 1678), later Lady Herbert, full-length, in a white satin dress, with gold embroidery, by a column with a draped curtain, a park landscape beyond

Closed9 July 2014

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Circle of Sir Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp 1599-1641 London)
Portrait of Mrs. Thomas Carey (d. 1678), later Lady Herbert, full-length, in a white satin dress, with gold embroidery, by a column with a draped curtain, a park landscape beyond
oil on canvas
85½ x 47¼ in. (217.3 x 120 cm.)

Lord Hastings, Melton Constable, Norfolk.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 21 November 1986, lot 72.
Private collection, Geneva.

Specialist note

The sitter was the daughter and sole heir of Sir Thomas Smith, Master of Requests. She married first Thomas Carey (1612-1649), second son of Robert, 1st Earl of Monmouth, and secondly, in September 1639, Sir Edward Herbert (d. 1658), who served as Attorney-General under King Charles I. The prime version of the present picture is at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire.