Thomas

Related Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Whereabouts unknown

Thomas

Object details

Title

Thomas

Technique and support

oil on panel

Dimensions

64.7 x 49.8 cm

Artist

Related artist

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Most recent published attribution

Previously unpublished

Collection and provenance

Collection

Whereabouts unknown

Provenance

Sale, Christie’s, London, 3 December 2014 (19, with another Apostle, Paul) as studio of Van Dyck;
with Fergus Hall Master Paintings Ltd., London, as Van Dyck;
private collection;
sale, Christie’s, New York, 19 April 2018 (18, with the Apostle Paul), as Van Dyck.

Literature

Literature

Previously unpublished.

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Uncradled (textile has been glued on the reverse)

Guild marks

Castle and Hands - separate branding irons

Panel maker's mark

Guilliam Aertssen

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

2

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 153
Dated: AD 1450 – 1602
Felled: After AD 1611 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 183
Dated: AD 1416 – 1598
Felled: after AD 1607 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Planks of the same tree

2. and plank 1 and plank 2 from Anthony Van Dyck, James the Greater, private collection, Germany (NL004/2020),2. and plank 1 from Anthony Van Dyck, Paul, private collection, UK (LO014/2021),2. and Jacques Jordaens, Holy Family, St. Gilles City Hall, Brussels, Belgium (BL008/2020): felling date after AD 1613 (terminus post quem)

Date of investigation

17 November 2016

Dendro report no.

LO003/2019

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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