Attributed to Sir Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp 1599-1641 London)
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Attributed to Sir Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp 1599-1641 London)

A portrait of a noblewoman

Closed27 January 2010

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Attributed to Sir Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp 1599-1641 London)
A portrait of a noblewoman
oil on canvas
26¾ x 22 in. (68 x 55.9 cm.)

2nd Lord Meadowbrook, from whom purchased by
John Jackson, R.A.
with Agnew's, London.
with Julius Böhler, Munich, from whom purchased by
Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Florence, 1924.
with Reinhardt, New York, 1927.
Senator and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, New York, by 1931, by whom
gifted to the
Denver Art Museum, 1962.

Specialist note

Van Dyck's hand in the execution of the present lot, as well as his original intention for the composition, is difficult to determine due to its present condition. It is a variation on the head study previously at Ickworth (see S.J. Barnes, et al., Van Dyck, no. II.ii2).