CIRCLE OF DANIEL MYTENS THE ELDER (DELFT C. 1590-1647 THE HAGUE)

Lot 42
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Lot 42 | CIRCLE OF DANIEL MYTENS THE ELDER (DELFT C. 1590-1647 THE HAGUE)
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CIRCLE OF DANIEL MYTENS THE ELDER (DELFT C. 1590-1647 THE HAGUE)

Portrait of Edward Denny, 1st Earl of Norwich (1569-1637), full-length, seated, wearing black silk Court dress, holding a book beside a table draped with red velvet

oil on canvas

74 3⁄8 x 48 ½ in. (189 x 123.2 cm.)

with identifying inscription 'to the right Honor.ble / Edward Denne / Earle of Norwich / Baron of Waltham' (centre right, on white letter)

in a frame of foliate carved and pierced giltwood, applied to an ebonised subframe





Provenance

Edwin, 2nd Baron Sandys (1726-1797), Ombersley Court, Worcestershire, by 1781-2, and by descent in the family to,

Richard Hill, 7th Baron Sandys (1931-2013), Ombersley Court, Worcestershire.



Literature

T.R. Nash, Collections for the History of Worcestershire, London, 1781-2, II, p. 224, where listed in a bedchamber below stairs.

J. Grego, Inventory of Pictures: Portraits, Paintings, etc., Ombersley MS., 1905, where listed in the State Parlor.

ONM / 1 / 2 / 7, journal entry for a visit to Ombersley Court, 25 August 1950, Oliver Millar Archive, Paul Mellon Centre, London, p. 23, as 'not unlike Mytens'.

A. Oswald, 'Ombersley Court, Worcestershire - II', Country Life, 9 January 1953, p. 94 and pl. 1, as 'Van Somer'.

Ombersley Court Inventory, June 1963, annotated Ombersley MS., as 'School of Van Somer', where listed in the small Dining Room.

Ombersley Court Catalogue of Pictures, undated, Ombersley MS., p. 26, as 'Daniel Mytens', where listed in the Dining Room.
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