ID 1344915
Lot 131 | FOLLOWER OF HANS HOLBEIN II
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000
Portrait of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger (c.1521-1544), bust-length, in profile
oil on panel, roundel
14 in. (35.5 cm.) diameter
with the brand of King Charles I to the reverse
Provenance
King Charles I (1600-1649), his brand on the reverse.
with Horatio Rodd, from whom acquired in 1847 by,
Francis Gibson (1805-1858), Saffron Walden, and by descent to his daughter and son-in-law,
Elizabeth (née Pease Gibson) and Lewis Fry (1832-1921), Goldney House, Bristol, and by descent.
Literature
R.E. Fry, 'Early English Portraiture at the Burlington Fine Arts Club', The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, XV, no. 74, May 1909, p. 75, as probably painted in England with Flemish influence, from life.
M. Conway and L. Cust, 'Portraits of the Wyat Family', The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, XVI, December 1909, no. 81, p. 159, pl. II.
A.B. Chamberlain, Hans Holbein the Younger, London, 1913, pp. 81 and 384, as possibly based on a lost original by Holbein.
P. Ganz, 'Ein unbekanntes Herrenbildnis von Hans Holbein d. J.', Jahrbuch für Kunst und Kunstpflege in der Schweiz, III, 1921-1924, p. 294, questioning the attribution to Holbein.
O. Millar, 'Abraham van der Doort's Catalogue of the Collections of Charles I', The Walpole Society, XXXVII, 1960, pp. 85, 210 and 233, as 'in the style of Holbein'.
R. Strong, Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, London, 1969, I, p. 340, under no. 3331; II, pl. 674, as 'by an unknown artist'.
R. Strong, 'In Search of Holbein's Thomas Wyatt the Younger', Apollo, March 2006, pp. 51 and 54-56, fig. 18, as 'After Holbein, late 16th century'.
Exhibited
London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition Illustrative of Early English Portraiture, 1909, no. 48, as 'Ascribed to Hans Holbein', lent by the Right Hon. Lewis Fry.
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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