Property from a Distinguished Italian Collection
Gillis Claeissens
Portrait of a lady, half-length, wearing a black dress with white gold-trimmed sleeves
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Italian Collection
Gillis Claeissens
Bruges 1526–1605
Portrait of a lady, half-length, wearing a black dress with white gold-trimmed sleeves
oil on oak panel, the reverse with a wax seal with the armorials of the Veterani family of Urbino
unframed: 35.8 x 27.5 cm.; 14⅛ x 10⅞ in.
framed: 54.4 x 44 cm.; 21⅜ x 17⅜ in.
Probably Veterani family, Urbino (according to a wax seal affixed to the reverse of the panel);
With Sir George Donaldson, London;
From whom acquired by Ralph Brocklebank (1840–1921), Haughton Hall, Cheshire, in 1895;
His posthumous sale, London, Christie's, 7 July 1922, lot 78 (as follower of François Clouet), for £220–10s. to Gooden & Fox;
Anonymous sale, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 24 March 1952, lot 31 (as follower of François Clouet);
Anonymous sale, Vienna, Dorotheum, 17 November 1982, lot 384 (as circle of François Clouet);
Where presumably acquired by the father of the present owner.
R. Radcliffe Carter, Pictures and Engravings at Haughton Hall Tarporley, in the possession of Ralph Brocklebank, London 1904, pp. 46–47, no. 37 (as François Clouet).
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and by deceased masters of the British School, 7 January – 16 March 1895, no. 181 (as François Clouet, Portrait of a Princess, lent by George Donaldson, Esq.).
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