CORNELIS JOHNSON VAN CEULEN I (LONDON 1593-1661 UTRECHT) - photo 1
CORNELIS JOHNSON VAN CEULEN I (LONDON 1593-1661 UTRECHT) - photo 2
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CORNELIS JOHNSON VAN CEULEN I (LONDON 1593-1661 UTRECHT) - photo 4

CORNELIS JOHNSON VAN CEULEN I (LONDON 1593-1661 UTRECHT)

Lot 33
01.07.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1441858
Lot 33 | CORNELIS JOHNSON VAN CEULEN I (LONDON 1593-1661 UTRECHT)
Estimate value
£ 100 000 – 150 000
CORNELIS JOHNSON VAN CEULEN I (LONDON 1593-1661 UTRECHT)
Portrait of King Charles I (1600-1649), bust-length, in a painted oval
signed and dated ‘C. J. / fecit 1632.’ (lower right)
oil on panel
30 ½ x 24 ¼ in. (77.4 x 61.5 cm.)




Provenance

(Possibly) Painted for Edward Barrett, 1st Lord Barrett of Newburgh (1581-1645), of Belhus, Aveley, Essex and Smithfield, London, and by descent to,
Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard (1853-1923), Belhus, Aveley, Essex; his sale, Alfred Savill & Sons, on the premises, 15 May 1923 (=6th day), lot 879, where acquired by the grandmother of the present owner, and by descent.



Literature

T. Barrett-Lennard, An account of the families of Lennard and Barrett, Compiled largely from original documents, Printed for Private circulation, 1908, p. 593.
A. J. Finberg, ‘A Chronological List of Portraits by Cornelius Johnson, or Jonson’, The Tenth Volume of the Walpole Society, Oxford, 1922, p. 23, no. 56, pl. XL, incorrectly catalogued as dated ‘1633’.
K. Hearn, Cornelius Johnson, London, 2015, p. 24.



Exhibited

Birmingham, Museum and Art Gallery, Catalogue (with notes) of the Collection of Paintings in Oil and Watercolours by Living and Deceased Artists, 1888, no. 169 (lent by Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard).
Brighton, Public Art Galleries, Loan Collection of Paintings in oil and watercolours, 1902, no. 151 (lent by Sir Thomas Barrett-Lennard).
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