Object details
Artist
Collection and provenance
Probably from the collection of Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland (1641-1702);
thence by descent to the 8th Earl Spencer (1924-1992), Althorp;
with Colnaghi, London, 1984;
private collection, Switzerland;
sale, Christie’s, London, 7 July 2009 (37);
private collection, United Kingdom;
with Simon Dickinson, London, 2016.
Literature
Althorp 1746, nos. 339-42 (“Five of the Apostles by Van Dyck”);
Althorp 1750, (“Five of the Apostles by Van Dyck”, in the Great Parlour);
Dibdin 1822, p. 275;
Althorp 1851, no. 254;
Cust 1900, p. 233, under no. 9;
Bode 1906, p. 257;
Schaeffer 1909, p. 1-left [as the Dresden version];
Oldenbourg 1914-5, pp. 225, 227, 230-1;
Rosenbaum 1928a, pp. 37-43;
Glück 1931, p. 523, n.42-left;
Van Puyvelde 1950, pp. 121-2;
Vey 1959b, p. 92;
Althorp 1976, p. 19, nos. 139 (254);
Roland 1983, p. 30;
Roland 1984, pp. 217-8;
Ottawa 1980a, pp. 38-9;
London 1984, no. 41;
London/New York 1986; pp. 17-20;
Larsen 1988, II, no. 148;
Japan 1990, no. 1;
Barnes et al. 2004, p. 79, no. I.74 (N. De Poorter);
Davies 2021a, p. 53, p. 62, n. 22;
Davies 2021c, p. 18, ill. p. 19, p. 27, n. 1;
Davies 2022c, pp. 72-89.
Panel reverse
Guilliam Gabron (partially obscured)
Dendrochronology
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