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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 8, 2021 | Christie's | London | Old Masters Evening Sale | 19 | $****** - ****** | Portrait of a bearded man, bust-length |
paintings
50.8 x 48.3 cm (20 x 19 in)
oil on panel
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1660-1744), Wimbledon Manor, and by descent with the house to her grandson,
The Hon. John Spencer (1708-1746), and by descent to his son,
John Spencer, 1st Viscount Spencer, and later 1st Earl Spencer (1734-1783), Wimbledon Manor until at least 1751 and later Althorp, and by descent to the following,
Edward John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (1924-1992) until at least 1976.
Acquired by the present owner in circa 1980.
Manchester, Art Treasures Exhibition Hall, The Art Treasures of Great Britain, 5 May-18 October 1857, no. 511.
London, Royal Academy, Old Masters and deceased Masters of the British School: A Special Collection of Works by Holbein and his School , 5 January-13 March 1880, no. 160, as 'Portrait of the Artist'.
London, The Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of pictures by Masters of the Netherlandish and allied schools of XV and early XVI centuries, 1892, no. 57, as 'His own Portrait'.
London, Grafton Galleries, Exhibition of Old Masters in aid of the National art-collections fund , 4 October-28 December 1911, no. 89, as 'Portrait of the Painter'.
London, Royal Academy, Flemish Art, 1300-1700, 1953-54, no. 263, as 'Portrait of G.B. Grimaldi of Genoa'.
Catalogue of the Pictures at Althorp made in November 1802 , manuscript, listed in the Picture Gallery, as 'Sir A Mor' (see K. Garlick, op. cit., p. 122).
T.F. Dibdin, Aedes Althorpianae: Or An Account of the Mansion, Books, and Pictures, at Althorp; The Residence of George John Earl Spencer, London, 1822, p. 246, as ' A Man of Letters , by Sir Anthony Mor', illustrated.
Dr. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain: Being an account of the Chief Collections of Paintings, Drawings,Sculptures and Illuminated MSS ., London, 1854, III, pp. 456-457, as 'Joos van Cleve, His own Portrait'.
Catalogue of the Pictures at Althorp House, in the county of Northampton , privately printed, 1851, p. 65, no. 268, as ' Himself, Joos van Cleve'.
C. Justi, ‘Der Fall Cleve’, Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen Kunstsammlungen , XVI, 1895, pp. 15-16, illustrated.
H. Walpole, 'Journals of Visits to Country Seats, etc.', The Walpole Society , XVI, 1928, p. 14, as 'called Holbein's, and may be so, it is good'.
M.J. Friedländer, Die Altniederländische Malerei , Leiden, 1934, IX, p. 142, no. 105, as 'Joos van Cleve', and dated to circa 1540.
M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, New York and Washington, 1972, IXa, p. 70, no. 105, pl. 112.
K.J. Garlick, 'Catalogue of the Pictures at Althorp', The Walpole Society, XLV, 1976, pp. 13 and 122, no. 95, as 'Attributed to Joos van Cleve'.
J.O. Hand, Joos van Cleve: The Complete Paintings, New Haven and London, 2004, p. 190, no. 115.
JOOS VAN CLEVE (KLEEF 1485-1540 ANTWERP)
Portrait of a bearded man, bust-length
oil on panel
20 x 19 in. (50.8 x 48.3 cm.)
