HANS EWORTH (ACTIVE ANTWERP 1540-1573/4 LONDON)

Lot 4
06.07.2023 14:30UTC +00:00
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ID 990534
Lot 4 | HANS EWORTH (ACTIVE ANTWERP 1540-1573/4 LONDON)
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£ 300 000 – 500 000
HANS EWORTH (ACTIVE ANTWERP 1540-1573/4 LONDON)

Portrait of young man, aged 27, half-length, in a tan slashed doublet, holding gloves

inscribed and dated 'ÆTATIS XXVII / 1571' (upper right)

oil on panel

25 x 18 3/8 in. (63.5 x 46.7 cm.)





Provenance

with Asscher and Welker, London, by 1929.

James Geoffrey Hart (1896-1946), Wych Cross Place, Sussex, by 1946, jointly with his wife,

Dorothy Irene Hart, née Joskavitsch (c.1906-1987), 9 Hyde Park Gardens, London, by 1955, and Villa Millbrook, Saint Lawrence, Jersey, by 1965; her sale (†), Christie's, London, 20 November 1987, lot 68 (£13,200).

Private collection, United Kingdom.

Acquired by the present owner in February 2019.



Literature

C. Musgrave, 'At the Villa Millbrook-1: Jersey's finest collection - belonging to Mrs. Dorothy Hart', The Connoisseur, June 1965, p. 72, illustrated in situ.

To be included in Hope Walker’s forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the paintings of Hans Eworth.



Exhibited

Worthing, Worthing Art Gallery, Dutch and Flemish Pictures from the Collection of Mrs. Geoffrey Hart, 19 July- 30 August 1952, no. 35, as 'Pieter Pourbus'.

Brighton, Brighton Art Gallery, Paintings and Furniture from the collection of Mrs. Geoffrey Hart, Summer 1956, no. 16, 'Hitherto attributed to Pieter Pourbus, this portrait is closer in the style of Hans Eworth (fl. 1540-1574)'.



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