Portrait of Dutton, 3rd Baron Gerard, of Bromley, Staffordshire, full-length, in a silver-grey slashed doublet and hose, his left hand on the hilt of his sword, his right hand resting on a cane, by a draped curtain, in a wooded landscape with a gentleman riding with hounds in the distance

Details

Attributed to George Geldorp (c.1595-1665)
Portrait of Dutton, 3rd Baron Gerard, of Bromley, Staffordshire, full-length, in a silver-grey slashed doublet and hose, his left hand on the hilt of his sword, his right hand resting on a cane, by a draped curtain, in a wooded landscape with a gentleman riding with hounds in the distance
with identifying inscription (lower left)
oil on canvas
86 x 53½ in. (218.5 x 135.9 cm.)

Provenance

Presumably by descent in the family of the sitter's wife to Anthony, 13th Earl of Westmorland, Apethorpe Hall, Northamptonshire;
Christie's, 2 June 1892, lot 104, as 'Mytens', sold together with a full-length portrait of Lady Gerard, of Bromley (52 guineas to Graves).
Major Philip Gribble; Christie's, London, 20 June 1975, lot 42, as 'D. Mytens' (sold 500 guineas).

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Lot Essay

The sitter was the son of Gilbert Gerard, 2nd Baron Gerard, of Gerard's Bromley, Staffordshire, and his wife Eleanor, daughter and heiress of Thomas Dutton of Dutton, Cheshire. He married Lady Mary Fane, second daughter of Francis, 1st Earl of Westmorland, as his first wife, by whom he had a son, Charles, who was to succeed him.

George Geldorp came to England in 1623 having spent the previous thirteen years painting in Antwerp. His works are close in style to those of his contemporaries Cornelius Johnson and Daniel Mytens and this portrait derives from a Mytens type.

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