SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK (ANTWERP 1599-1641 LONDON)

Lot 7
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Lot 7 | SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK (ANTWERP 1599-1641 LONDON)
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SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK (ANTWERP 1599-1641 LONDON)
An Andalusian horse (recto); A wooded landscape – a sketch (verso)
oil on canvas
52 x 41 ¾ in. (132 x 106 cm.), including a horizontal extension of 2 ¾ in. (7 cm.) along the upper edge




Provenance

with R.P. Nicholls, London, from whom acquired in 1859 by the following,
Thomas Gambier Parry (1816-1888), Highnam Court, Gloucester, and by descent until,
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 13 December 2000, lot 30, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

T. Gambier Parry, Manuscript catalogue of the pictures at Highnam Court, December 1863, no. 75.
National Exhibition of Works of Art, Leeds: Baines’s Handbook to the Picture Galleries, Leeds, 2nd ed., 1868, p. 38, no. 816.
‘The Royal Academy – Winter Exhibition’, exhibition review, The Athenaeum, no. 3143, 21 January 1888, p. 91.
E. Gambier Parry, Manuscript inventory of pictures at Highnam Court, July 1897, MSS. Courtauld Institute Gallery, London, no. 67, recording the tradition that the horse depicted was given to Van Dyck by Rubens.
A. Blunt, ‘Seventeenth and eighteenth-century pictures in the Gambier-Parry Collection’, The Burlington Magazine, CIX, March 1967, p. 177, questioning the Wilton provenance.
D. Farr, 'Thomas Gambier Parry as a collector', Thomas Gambier Parry (1816-1888) as artist and collector, London, 1993, p. 43, no. 48.
J. Hedley, Van Dyck at The Wallace Collection, London, 1999, p. 143.
O. Millar, ‘Van Dyck: Horses and a Landscape’, The Burlington Magazine, CXLIV, March 2002, pp.161-3, figs. 34 and 35.
O. Millar in S.J. Barnes et al., Van Dyck: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, New Haven and London, 2004, pp. 95-6, no. I.102, figs. I.102R and I.102V.
M. Jonker and E. Bergvelt, Dutch and Flemish paintings: Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 2016, pp. 88-9 and 91, note 54, fig. 12.



Exhibited

London, British Institution, 1860, no. 43 (lent by T. Gambier Parry).
Leeds, General Infirmary, National Exhibition of Works of Art, 1868, no. 816 (lent by T. Gambier Parry).
London, Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1888, no. 150 (lent by T. Gambier Parry).
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