Lot Essay
We are grateful to Susan North for her thoughts on the costume, which she identifies as English, circa 1620.
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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
Details
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.)
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.)
Provenance
Acquired from Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, in 1912.
Literature
Cowdray Park Catalogue, London, 1919, p. 7, no. 30, as 'Paul van Somer' 'Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales' (Stairs).
C. Anson, A Catalogue of Pictures and Drawings in the Collection of The Viscount Cowdray, London, 1971, p. 28, no. 83, plate 8, as 'Paul van Somer' 'Portrait of a gentleman, said to be Henry, Prince of Wales' (in the East Gallery).
C. Anson, A Catalogue of Pictures and Drawings in the Collection of The Viscount Cowdray, London, 1971, p. 28, no. 83, plate 8, as 'Paul van Somer' 'Portrait of a gentleman, said to be Henry, Prince of Wales' (in the East Gallery).
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