Sketch of Endymion Porter (1587-1649)

Related Artist: William Dobson (1611-1646)


Private Collection, United Kingdom

Object details

Title

Sketch of Endymion Porter (1587-1649)

Technique and support

Oil on paper laid on panel

Artist

Related artist

William Dobson (1611-1646)

Most recent published attribution

Inconclusive [Marijnssen 1996]

Collection and provenance

Collection

Private Collection, United Kingdom

Provenance

Probably acquited in Paris by Norman Winston, U.S.A., 1953; on the Belgian art market, as Van Dyck; Belgian private collection; sale, Lempertz, Cologne, 18 May 2019 (1255), as after William Dobson

Literature

Literature

Marijnissen 1996, pp. 67-70

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Uncradled

Labels

1. Paper label Lempertz auction house
2. Paper label Simon Gillespie Studio
3. Partial paper label menioning W. R: Valentiner and possible provenance of Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia and the Duke of Cumberland.

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

1

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 239
Dated: AD 1424 – 1662
Felled: After AD 1672 (terminus post quem)
Origin: south-western Germany/northern Switzerland

Planks of the same tree

-

Date of investigation

26 June 2019

Dendro report no.

LO033/2019

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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