Circle of Gaspard de Crayer (1584-1669)

Portrait of a Gentleman, traditionally identified as Archduke Charles of Austria, full-length, in the robes of the Order of the Golden Fleece, by a table in an interior

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Circle of Gaspard de Crayer (1584-1669)
Portrait of a Gentleman, traditionally identified as Archduke Charles of Austria, full-length, in the robes of the Order of the Golden Fleece, by a table in an interior
with 19th Century inscription 'MIREVELDT PINXT' (lower left) and 'THE ARCH DUKE CHARLES.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
81½ x 46 1/8in. (207 x 117.3cm.)

Provenance

John, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713-1792) or John, 4th Earl and 1st Marquess of Bute (1744 -1814), and by descent at Luton Park (1799 inventory, p. 120, 'Lang Jans Albert, Arch Duke of Austria, Governor of the Low Countries in robe of the Order of the Golden Fleece'; 1800 inventory, [no. 167]; mentioned as in the Billiard Room in a list of before 1822, owned by Mr C. Wilson, circa 1975) and elsewhere.

Literature

J.P. Richter, Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures lent for Exhibition by the Marquis of Bute, K.T., London, 1883, no. 224.
[K. Armet], Mount Stuart, Rothesay, n.d., p. 7, as Boeckhorst.

Exhibited

Bethnal Green, 1883, no. 224, as Mierevelt.
Glasgow, 1884.

Lot Essay

Archduke Charles of Austria (1590-1625) was the youngest brother of Emperor Ferdinand II and became Master of the German Order in 1619.

Sir Ellis Waterhouse in 1948, perhaps aware of the 1799 inventory, suggested an attribution to Boeckhorst (annotation in his copy of the 1883 exhibition catalogue).

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