Name: GERRIT VAN HONTHORST (UTRECHT 1592-1656) AND STUDIO
Brand: Portrait of a gentleman, bust-length, with a blue sash and flat lace collar, in a feigned sculpted oval
Price: 11000.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

GERRIT VAN HONTHORST (UTRECHT 1592-1656) AND STUDIO
Portrait of a gentleman, bust-length, with a blue sash and flat lace collar, in a feigned sculpted oval
signed and dated 'GHonthorst 1639 ('GH' in ligature, centre right), and with later inscription 'G.Honthorst' (lower right)
oil on canvas
30 x 25¹⁄₈ in. (76.2 x 63.8cm.)

Charles Marsham, 4th Earl of Romney (1841-1905), Mote Park, from whom acquired with Mote Park in 1895 by,
Marcus Samuel, later 1st Viscount Bearsted (1853-1927), and by descent to his son,
Colonel Walter Horace Samuel, 2nd Viscount Samuel (1882-1948); Christie's, London, 13 December 1929, lot 79, where unsold, and presumably by inheritance to his sister,
Nellie Ionides, née Samuel (1883-1962), and by descent in 1968 to her grandson,
Toby Jessel (1934-2018), The Old Court House, Hampton Court; Sotheby's, London, 30 April 2014, lot 727, as 'Gerrit van Honthorst'.

J. L-M, Upton House, The Bearsted Collection: Pictures, London, 1964, p. 41, under no. 137.
J.R. Judson and R.E.O. Ekkart, Gerrit van Honthorst 1592-1656, Doornspijk, 1999, pp. 315 and 316, no. 479.

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Lots 30-33 belong to a group of portraits of unidentified Dutch army officers painted between 1637 and 1639, when the artist was living in The Hague. Although included in Judson and Ekkart's catalogue under autograph paintings, the authors acknowledge that they were most likely products of collaboration between the artist and his studio (op. cit., p. 315). The pictures were in the collection of the Earl of Romney at The Mote, near Maidstone in Kent, and subsequently acquired with the house by Viscount Bearsted, who sold them in 1929. One portrait from the group is now in the collection of the University of Notre Dame, Snite Museum of Art.