Sketch for the Double Portrait of Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport (circa 1597–1666) and George, Lord Goring (1608–1657)

Related Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Bijl-van Urk B.V. - Old Master Paintings, Alkmaar, The Netherlands

Sketch for the Double Portrait of Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport (circa 1597–1666) and George, Lord Goring (1608–1657)

Object details

Title

Sketch for the Double Portrait of Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport (circa 1597–1666) and George, Lord Goring (1608–1657)

Technique and support

Oil on panel

Dimensions

14.8 x 20.9 cm

Artist

Related artist

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Most recent published attribution

New York 2016 without a clear attribution

Collection and provenance

Collection

Bijl-van Urk B.V. - Old Master Paintings, Alkmaar, The Netherlands

Provenance

Private collection, Norfolk, United Kingdom;
sale, Sotheby’s, London, 5 July 2012 (205), unsold, as Van Dyck;
sale, Sotheby’s, London, 5 December 2019 (130), unsold, as Van Dyck;
sale, Sotheby’s, London, 20 May 2020 (87), as Van Dyck;
with Bijl-van Urk B.V. – Old Master Paintings, Alkmaar, 2021.

Literature

Literature

New York 2016, pp. 29, 37, note 121.

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Uncradled

Wax seals

Unidentified red wax seal

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

2

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 58
Dated: undated
Felled: -
Origin: -

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 123
Dated: AD 1489 – 1611
Felled: After AD 1621 (terminus post quem)
Origin: south-eastern Belgium/north-eastern France

Planks of the same tree

-

Date of investigation

07 December 2017

Dendro report no.

LO024/2017

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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