ID 1071070
Lot 187 | DUTCH SCHOOL, 17TH CENTURY
Estimate value
£ 4 000 – 6 000
Portrait of a boy, traditionally identified as Charles, Prince of Wales, later King Charles II (1630-1685), full-length, in a plumed hat, with a sword, holding gloves and a baton
oil on canvas
55 ¼ x 34 ¼ in. (140.3 x 87 cm.)
Provenance
(Probably) Mary, Marchioness of Downshire and 1st Baroness Sandys (1764-1836), Hanover Square, by 1801, and thence by descent in the family to,
Richard Hill, 7th Baron Sandys (1931-2013), Ombersley Court, Worcestershire.
Literature
(Probably) An Inventory and Valuation of the Pictures at Hanover Square, 5 November 1801, no. 56, as 'King Charles when a Boy by Mittins'.
ONM / 1 / 2 / 7, journal entry for a visit to Ombersley Court, 25 August 1950, Oliver Millar Archive, Paul Mellon Centre, London, p. 31, as 'probably Dutch'.
Ombersley Court Inventory, annotated Ombersley MS., June 1963, as 'Gerrit van Honthorst', where listed in the the Library.
Ombersley Court Catalogue of Pictures, undated, Ombersley MS., p. 23, as 'Gerrit van Honthorst', where listed in the Study.
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