FRANS HALS (ANTWERP 1582/3-1666 HAARLEM) - photo 1
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FRANS HALS (ANTWERP 1582/3-1666 HAARLEM)

Lot 17
02.07.2024 19:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 17 | FRANS HALS (ANTWERP 1582/3-1666 HAARLEM)
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£ 4 000 000 – 6 000 000
FRANS HALS (ANTWERP 1582/3-1666 HAARLEM)
Portrait of a gentleman of the de Wolff family, possibly Joost de Wolff (1576/7-?after 1652), half-length
signed with artist's monogram, dated and inscribed 'ÆTA SVÆ 6[...] / 1643 FH' (upper right)
oil on canvas
36 ¾ x 30 in. (93.4 x 76.2 cm.)
with the coat-of-arms of the de Wolff family (upper right)




Provenance

Sir Algernon Borthwick Bt., 1st Baron Glenesk (1830-1908).
Sir George Donaldson (1845-1925), London.
with Martin H. Colnaghi, London, by 1891.
Sir George Alexander Drummond (1829-1910), Montreal; (†) his sale, Christie's, London, 26 June 1919, lot 182, with the sitter erroneously identified as 'Joseph Coymans', where acquired for 25,500 gns. by Thos. Agnew & Sons, London, on behalf of,
Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray (1856-1927), by whom hung at 17 Carlton House Terrace, London, and by descent at Cowdray Park.



Literature

E.W. Moes, Frans Hals: Sa Vie et son Oeuvre, Brussels, 1909, p. 101, illustrated opposite p. 60, with the sitter erroneously identified as 'Johan van Loo'.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, III, London, 1910, pp. 53-4, no. 169, with the sitter erroneously identified as 'Joseph Coymans'.
'Royal Inauguration of the Art Gallery', The Montreal Daily Witness, 10 December 1912, p. 14.
'Montreal's Art Treasures', American Art News, XII, 20 December 1913, p. 2.
W. von Bode, ed., Frans Hals: sein Leben und seine Werke, II, Berlin, 1914, p. 61, no. 207, pl. 131.
W.R. Valentiner, Frans Hals: Des Meisters Gemälde (Klassiker der Kunst), 1st ed., Stuttgart and Berlin, 1921, p. 195; 2nd ed., 1923, p. 209.
F. Dülberg, Frans Hals: sein Leben und sein Werk, Stuttgart, 1930, p. 168.
S. Slive, Frans Hals, II, London and New York, 1974, pl. 227; III, p. 75, no. 145.
C. Grimm, L’opera completa di Frans Hals, Milan, 1974, pp. 103-4, no. 156.
C. Grimm, Frans Hals: Das Gesamtwerk, Stuttgart and Zurich, 1989, p. 280, no. 115, illustrated.
C. Grimm, Frans Hals: The Complete Work, New York, 1990, p. 286, no. 115, illustrated.
F. Russell, Pearsons and Pictures, London, 2011, n.p., fig. 21.



Exhibited

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Old Masters, deceased masters of the British School & English watercolours, 5 January-14 March 1891, no. 71, with the sitter erroneously identified as 'Johan van Loo' (lent by Martin H. Colnaghi).
Montreal, The Art Association of Montreal, Inaugural Loan Exhibition of Paintings, December 1912, no. 66 (lent by Lady Drummond).
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Dutch pictures, 1450-1750, 1952-1953, no. 58 (lent by Viscount Cowdray).
Manchester, Manchester City Art Gallery, Art Treasures Centenary: European Old Masters, 30 October-31 December 1957, no. 125, with the sitter erroneously identified as 'Joseph Coymans' (lent by Viscount Cowdray).
Montreal, The Montreal Museum, Canada Collects 1860-1960, 1962, no. 31 (lent by Viscount Cowdray).
Haarlem, The Frans Hals Museum, Frans Hals - Exhibition on the Occasion of the Centenary of the Municipal Museum at Haarlem, 16 June-30 September 1962, no. 51.
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