The Martyrdom of St George

Related Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)


Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford, United Kingdom

Object details

Title

The Martyrdom of St George

Technique and support

Oil on panel

Dimensions

44.8 x 36.4 cm

Artist

Related artist

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Most recent published attribution

Van Dyck [always]

Collection and provenance

Collection

Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford, United Kingdom

Provenance

General Guise, 1682/3-1765, London:
by bequest.

Literature

Literature

Dodsley 1761, III, p. 19, as Van Dyck;
Martyn 1766, II, p. 50;
Smith 1831, no. 392;
Christ Church Oxford 1916, no. 324;
Glück 1931, p. 352-left;
London 1953-4, no. 493;
Vey 1956, pp. 194-7;
Antwerp 1960, pp. 162-3, no. 128;
Christ Church Oxford 1967, no. 247;
London 1968, no. 26;
Princeton 1979, no. 38;
Larsen 1988, II, no. 669;
Antwerp/Munster 1990, p. 27, n. 21;
Lahrkamp 1990, p. 133;
Jaffé 1991b, pp. 217-18;
Baudouin 1993, p. 216;
Baudouin 1994, pp. 175-90;
Antwerp 1999, no. 3 a-g;
Barnes et al. 2004, pp. 282-3, no. III. 48 (H. Vey);
Davies 2021a, pp. 59, 63, n. 51;
Davies 2021e, pp. 64-6;
Seim 2022, p. 39.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Uncradled

Guild marks

Castle with indistinct hands

Panel maker's mark

Reynier Roybaert

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

3

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 113
Dated: AD 1496 – 1608
Felled: After AD 1618 (terminus post quem)
Origin: north-eastern France/south-eastern Belgium

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 138
Dated: AD 1471 – 1608
Felled: After AD 1618 (terminus post quem)
Origin: north-eastern France/south-eastern Belgium

Plank no. 3

Tree rings: -
Dated: -
Felled: -
Origin: -

Planks of the same tree

1. and 2. this painting

Date of investigation

30 October 2018

Dendro report no.

UK012/2018

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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