Name: FOLLOWER OF DANIEL MYTENS
Brand: Portrait of Charles I (1600-1649), full-length
Price: 18000.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

FOLLOWER OF DANIEL MYTENS
Portrait of Charles I (1600-1649), full-length
oil on canvas
86⁵⁄₈ x 56³⁄₄ in. (225 x 144.2 cm.)
with initials and dated 'MF · 1626' (centre right, 'MF' in ligature, partially strengthened)

(Presumably) by descent at Normanby Park, Lincolnshire, to,
Sir Berkeley Sheffield, 6th Bt. (1876-1946); Christie's, London, 16 July 1943, lot 92, with erroneous date, as 'D. Mytens' (170 gns. to Spink).
Helen Needham; Sotheby's, London, 8 May 1946, lot 76, as 'Daniel Mytens', where acquired by her nephew,
J. Sheffield, and by descent to his son, by whom sold at the following,
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Gentleman]; Sotheby's, London, 10 July 2014, lot 117, as 'After Daniel Mytens'.

(Presumably), L. Weaver, 'Normanby Park, Burton-on-Stather, Lincolnshire, the seat of Sir Berkeley Sheffield, Bart.', Country Life, XXX, 29 July 1911, p. 176, erroneously identified as 'a Mytens portrait of Charles II as a young man'.
D. Piper, Catalogue of Seventeenth Century Portraits in the National Portrait Gallery 1625-1714, Cambridge, 1963, p. 61, as a version of the painting in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
O. ter Kuile, 'Daniel Mijtens: "His Majesties Picture-Drawer"', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, X, 1969, p. 58, as a copy of the portrait in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
S. Jenkins, England's Thousand Best Houses, London, 2003, p. 441, as 'Mytens'.

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Daniel Mytens came to England in 1618 and worked initially for the Earl of Arundel, for whom he painted the celebrated full-length portraits of the Earl and his wife, Alathea Talbot (both c.1618; London, National Portrait Gallery, long term loan to Arundel Castle). Mytens was patronized by James I and on his accession, Charles I appointed him ‘one of our picture-drawers of our Chamber in ordinairie’ for life. From 1620 to 1634 there are regular payments to Mytens for official royal portraits. The portrait of the King in a scarlet tunic appears to be the one referred to in three documents for the royal accounts from 1630 and 1631. The prime version is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and is signed and dated 1629.