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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 5, 2018 | Sotheby's | London | Old Masters Evening Sale | 29 | $****** - ****** | PORTRAIT OF CHARLES II (1630–1685) WHEN PRINCE OF WALES |
paintings
158.8 x 109.2 cm (62.52 x 42.99 in)
oil on canvas, in a carved wood frame
Probably commissioned by King Charles I, before 9 August 1641, when the Prince was carried by barge from Lambeth to Van Dyck's Whitehall studio;Possibly Sir Horatio Townshend, 3rd Bt. and later 1st Viscount Townshend (1630-1687), Raynham Hall, Norfolk;
Thence probably by descent to Field Marshall George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend (1724–1807), Raynham Hall, Norfolk;
By descent to his son George Townshend, 2nd Marquess Townshend (1753–1811), Raynham Hall, Norfolk;
By descent to John Stuart Townshend, 6th Marquess Townshend (1866–1921), Raynham Hall, Norfolk;
His sale ('Catalogue of the Townshend Heirlooms'), London, Christie's, 7 March 1904, lot 191 (as D. Mytens), 460 guineas to Agnews;
With Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd., London;
From whom acquired by Robert (1850–1929) and Evelyn Benson (1856–1943);
By whom given to their daughter;
Thence by inheritance
London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and Deceased Masters of the British School, Winter Exhibition, 1910, cat. no. 126, lent by R.H. Benson Esq;London, Royal Academy, British Portraits, Winter Exhibition, 1956–57, cat. no. 79 (as attributed to Sir Anthony van Dyck);
London, Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd., Loan Exhibition. Sir Anthony van Dyck, 7 November – 7 December 1968, no. 61;
London, National Portrait Gallery, Van Dyck in England, 1982, no. 63.
A Catalog of pictures at Raynham Hall, Ms. 177[?], Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Mss file 28;Inventory of Pictures belonging to the Most Noble Marquis of Townshend and Leicester at Raynham Hall, 1810: 'A pair of Whole Length Portraits of Chas. II and his Sister, by Mytens. £21.0.0.';
The Collection of Pictures at Raynham Hall, compiled with historical notes by James Durham, privately printed 1926, pp. 6, 26;
Prince Frederick Duleep Singh, Portraits in Norfolk Houses, Norwich, n.d., vol. II, p. 200;
E. Larsen, L'opera completa di Anton van Dyck, Milan 1980, p. 127, cat. no. 978;
E. Larsen, The Paintings of Anthony van Dyck, Freren 1988, vol. II, p. 316, cat. no. 800, reproduced;
K.M. Gibson, ‘Best Belov’d of Kings’. The iconography of King Charles II, D.Phil. diss., London 1997, vol. I, pp. 21–22, vol. II p. 279, cat. no. 161, reproduced vol. III, fig. 23;
S.J. Barnes, N. de Poorter, O. Millar and H. Vey, Van Dyck. A complete catalogue of the paintings, New Haven and London 2004, p. 484, cat. no. IV.68, reproduced;
A. Busiakiewicz, Armour in the British Portraits of Sir Anthony van Dyck, MA diss., London 2014, p. 45, reproduced fig. 51.
oil on canvas, in a carved wood frame
158.8 x 109.2 cm.; 62 1/2 x 43 in.
