Henrietta Boyle, Countess of Rochester (1646 – 87)

Related Artist: Remigius van Leemput (1607-1675)


Royal Collection Trust, United Kingdom

Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2020 Henrietta Boyle, Countess of Rochester (1646 – 87)

Object details

Title

Henrietta Boyle, Countess of Rochester (1646 – 87)

Technique and support

Oil on panel

Dimensions

23.5 x 17.6 cm

Artist

Related artist

Remigius van Leemput (1607-1675)

Most recent published attribution

Attributed to Leemput (Millar 1963)

Collection and provenance

Collection

Royal Collection Trust, United Kingdom

Inv. no.

RCIN 402544

Literature

Literature

Oliver Millar, The Tudor, Stuart and Early Georgian Pictures in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen, Phaidon Publishers Inc., 1963, no. 230, p. 119, as ‘identity uncertain’

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Uncradled

Panel maker's mark

None

Labels

Old paper collection label with ink inscription ‘H 5[…]’

Inscriptions

  1. White painted inventory number; 402,544 2.
  2. Old white painted numeral 4 
  3. Chalk inscription ‘The Duchess of Bucking[…]’

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

1

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 80
Dated: AD 1393 - 1472
Felled: AD 1661±10
Origin: south-western Germany

Planks of the same tree

attributed to Remigius van Leemput:
Diana Russell, Countess of Newport (1624–95) (UK016/2019)
Anne Villiers, Countess of Morton (d. 1684) (UK018/2019)
Elizabeth Wriothesley, Countess of Northumberland (1646–90) (UK022/2019)
Barbara Villiers, Countess of Suffolk (1622–81) (UK025/2019)
Penelope Naunton, Countess of Pembroke (1620–47?) (UK026/2019): AD 1661±10

Date of investigation

11 January 2019

Dendro report no.

UK023/2019

Author

James Innes-Mulraine

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