Portrait of Lady, traditionally identified as Mary Villiers, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (1622-1685), full-length, in a blue silk gown and gold cape

FOLLOWER OF SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK
Portrait of Lady, traditionally identified as Mary Villiers, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (1622-1685), full-length, in a blue silk gown and gold cape
oil on canvas, unframed
86¹⁄₂ x 50¹⁄₄ in. (219.5 x 127.5 cm.)

with P and D. Colnaghi & Co., London.
with Julius Weitzner, New York.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 27 March 1987, lot 114a, as 'Studio of Sir Anthony van Dyck'.
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Gentleman]; Christie's, London, 12 July 1991, lot 6, as 'Studio of Sir Anthony van Dyck'.

E. Larsen, The Paintings of Anthony Van Dyck, II, Freren, 1988, pp. 382-383, no. 975, illustrated, as 'van Dyck'.

Brussels, Exposition universelle et internationale de Bruxelles, 1910.

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