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

Portrait of Henry Jermyn, the future Lord Jermyn and Earl of St Albans (1605-1684), half-length, in a black doublet and lace collar

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Studio of Sir Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp 1599-1641 London)
Portrait of Henry Jermyn, the future Lord Jermyn and Earl of St Albans (1605-1684), half-length, in a black doublet and lace collar
oil on canvas
29 5/8 x 23¼ in. (75.2 x 59.1 cm.)
Provenance
(Possibly) Horace Walpole, Strawberry Hill, 1784; his sale, Strawberry Hill, 18 May 1842, lot 64.
Mary Day, Hinton House, Hinton Charterhouse, and by inheritance in 1846 to
Thomas Jones (1788-1848), Hinton House, Hinton Charterhouse, and by descent to
Edward Talbot Day Jones (1837-1911), and by descent until sold,
Anonymous sale; Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury, 16 June 2010, lot 327, as 'Studio [or Follower] of Sir Anthony van Dyck' (£16,000 hammer).
Anonymous sale; Dorotheum, Vienna, 13 October 2010, lot 336, as 'Sir Anthony van Dyck' (Euro 76,230 to the present owner).
Literature
(Possibly) H. Walpole, A Description of the Villa...at Strawberry Hill, Strawberry Hill, 1784.
English & Sons, Inventory of all the Household...including Paintings at Hinton Charterhouse, the Property of the Late Thomas Jones made August 23rd-28th 1848..., Bath, 1848, as 'Portrait of Lord Guildford, with moustache black vest and lace collar (Van Dyck)'.
O. Millar et al., Van Dyck: A complete catalogue of the paintings, New Haven and London, 2004, p. 641, no. IV.A35, as 'Henry Jermyn, later Lord Jermyn and Earl of St Albans', a version of an untraced full-length formerly at Rushbrooke Hall (for which see Rev. E. Farrer, Portraits in Suffolk Houses (West), London, 1908, p. 298).

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