Object details
Artist
Collection and provenance
Sir John Neeld, Bt., Wiltshire, lent by him to the Royal Academy ‘Old Masters’ exhibition, 1877, as Rubens;
L. W. Neeld, his sale, Christie’s, London 9 June 1944 (25), as Rubens, bought by Weitzner;
Captain G. De Mahler, his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 17 May 1961, as Rubens, bought by the museum.
Literature
Larsen 1988, II, no. 37, as Van Dyck;
Vander Auwera 2021, pp. 92-7, as Jordaens.
Panel reverse
1. Label of the R.A. exhibition, 1877
2. Label of the Museum Galleries, 38 Piccadilly, W.1;
3. Christie’s stencil, 972 UJ
Dendrochronology
Remarks
The portrait has been exhibited at the Fitzwilliam Museum as by Van Dyck, c. 1620 (on the opinions of J. S. Held and M. Jaffé), which is not possible as the last heart ring year of the third plank of the panel was found to be 1645. See the article by J. Vander Auwera in Issue 2 of the Jordaens Van Dyck Journal, attributing the portrait to Jordaens.
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