Portrait of Prince Albert (1559-1621), Archduke of Austria and Joint Sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands, half length, wearing a gold embroidered white costume, a black coat, lace collar, and the Order of the Golden Fleece; and Portrait of his wife, Prin

Pantoja de la Cruz succeeded Sanchez Coello as court painter of Philip II in 1588 and is known to have portrayed 39 members of the Spanish royal family. Other portraits of Albert and Isabella by him, dated 1599 and 1600, are in the Alte Pinakothek, Mnchen. These in the present lot are based on prototypes engraved by J. Houbraken, in J.Wagenaar, Vaderlandse historie, vervattende de geschiedenissen der nu Vereenigde Nederlanden, [1751], 21 vols., X, p.421; XI, p.181.