FLEMISH SCHOOL, LATE 16TH CENTURY

Lot 103
07.07.2023 10:30UTC +00:00
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ID 990766
Lot 103 | FLEMISH SCHOOL, LATE 16TH CENTURY
Valeur estimée
£ 40 000 – 60 000
FLEMISH SCHOOL, LATE 16TH CENTURY

Portrait of a knight, possibly François le Vasseur, seigneur de Moriensart and 9th Greffier of the Order of the Golden Fleece (d. 1603), half-length, in armour, holding a commander's baton

oil on canvas

29 x 20 1/2 in. (73.6 x 52.1 cm.)





Provenance

(Possibly) Mr. [J or T] Norman, Plymouth Dock, Plymouth, Devon; Hickman, London, 16 May 1818, lot 26a, as 'Sancheo Coello, Portrait of the Duke d'Alba', where possibly acquired by the following,

with Urbino Pizzetta, Foley Place, London; Christie's, London, 26 May 1820, lot 89, as 'Sanchez Coello, Portrait of the Duke of Alva', where unsold and possibly subsequently acquired privately by the following,

William Beckford (1760-1844), Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire; Christie's, Fonthill Abbey, 16 October 1822 [=7th day], lot 31, as 'Coello, Portrait of the Duke of Alva in a Cuirass, and with a Mareschal's Baton – very highly finished', the entire contents of the sale were sold by private treaty with the house prior to the auction to,

John Farquhar (1751-1826), merchant and entrepreneur, Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire, where listed in the Eastern Yellow Drawing Room; Phillips, on the premises, 10 October 1823 [=24th day], lot 26, as 'Coello [amended to 'Merevelt' in one copy of the catalogue], Portrait of the Duke of Alva in a Cuirass, and with a Mareschal's Baton,- highly finished’, lot 73 (30 gns. to John Swabey, on behalf of the following),

William Beckford (1760-1844), Lansdown Tower, Bath, hung in the back drawing room, and by inheritance to his son-in-law,

William Douglas-Hamilton, 12th Duke of Hamilton, 9th Duke of Brandon, 2nd Duke of Châtelherault (1845-1895), Hamilton Palace, South Lanarkshire; Christie's, London, 8 July 1882 [=10th day], lot 1141, as 'Coello, Portrait of the Duke of Alva, in white dress and ruff, and partly-gilt breastplate, holding a baton in his right hand' (400 gns. to Agnew on behalf of the following),

Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart, 7th Bt. of Greenock and Blackhall (1826-1903), and by descent at Fonthill, through his third son,

Walter Richard Shaw-Stewart (1861-1934), and the latter's second daughter,

Irene Beatrice (1901-1971), wife of Brigadier Reginald Gordon Ward Rimington (1891-1941), and by descent to their son,

Niel Rimington (1928-2009); (†) Christie's, London, 6 July 2010, lot 25.



Exhibited

New York, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture; and London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, William Beckford, 1760-1844: An Eye for the Magnificent, 18 October 2001-4 April 2002, no. 130, as 'Anonymous, possibly Flemish' (entry by J. Chapel).



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