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SAMUEL VAN HOOGSTRATEN (DORDRECHT 1627-1678)
Portrait of Thomas Godfrey of Burton Aleph (d. 1690), three-quarter-length, seated, in a black coat with slashed sleeves and red ribbons, with a dog at his side
signed with initials and dated 'S.v.H. 1663.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
41 ¾ x 31 ¼ in. (106.1 x 79.3 cm.)
inscribed 'POST SPINAS PALMA / T G / 1663.' (upper left, with the arms of the Godfrey and Toke families)
Provenance
By descent in the sitter's family to,
Sir Bryan Godfrey-Faussett (1863-1945), Ranger's Lodge, and thence by descent; Christie's, London, 17 November 1989, lot 44, where acquired by the uncle of the present owner.
Literature
Illustrated London News, 1 January 1938.
H. Gerson, Ausbreitung und Nachwirkung der holländischen Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts, Amsterdam, 1983, p. 397.
W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, II, Landau/Pfalz, 1983, pp. 1299 and 1346, no. 863, illustrated.
E.K. Waterhouse, The Dictionary of 16th and 17th Century British Artists, Woodbridge, 1988, p. 131, illustrated.
M. Roscam Abbing, De schilder en schrijver Samuel van Hoogstraten 1627-1678: Eigentijdse bronnen en oeuvre van gesigneerde schilderijen, Leiden, 1993, p. 126, no. 26.
C. Brusati, Artifice and Illusion: The Art and Writing of Samuel van Hoogstraten, Chicago and London, 1995, p. 335, no. 19, fig. 61, and p. 350, no. 19.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of 17th Century Art in Europe, 1907.
London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of 17th Century Art in Europe, 3 January-12 March 1938, no. 203, lent by Captain Sir Bryan Godfrey-Faussett.
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