Live Auction 8014The Cowdray Sale: Works of Art from Cowdray Park and Dunecht House, At Cowdray Park, West Sussex
Anglo-Flemish School, circa 1620
Lot 155

Anglo-Flemish School, circa 1620

Portrait of a gentleman, traditionlly identified as Henry, Prince of Wales (1593-1612), three-quarter-length, in full breeches and a high-waisted doublet with ribbon points at the waist, with a red silk satin cloak and a swept hilt rapier, on a terrace in a garden, with courtiers on a parterre beyond

Closed15 September 2011

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GBP 103,250

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Anglo-Flemish School, circa 1620
Portrait of a gentleman, traditionlly identified as Henry, Prince of Wales (1593-1612), three-quarter-length, in full breeches and a high-waisted doublet with ribbon points at the waist, with a red silk satin cloak and a swept hilt rapier, on a terrace in a garden, with courtiers on a parterre beyond
with erroneous identifying inscription 'Henry Prince of Wales. Son of K. James ye. first.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
50 x 45 in. (127 x 104.4 cm.)

Acquired from Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, in 1912.

Specialist note

We are grateful to Susan North for her thoughts on the costume, which she identifies as English, circa 1620.