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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 5, 2023 | Bonhams | London | Old Master Paintings | 10 | $****** - ****** | Portrait of gentleman, three-quarter-length, in armour, standing before a curtain |
paintings
125.6 x 102 cm (49.45 x 40.16 in)
oil on canvas
with the sitter"s coat-of-arms (upper right)
The Collection of Cornelia, Countess of Craven, by whom offered
Sale, Christie"s, London, 13 April 1923, lot 140 (as Sustermans)
The Collection of Thomas Ogden, by whose trustees sold
Sale, Christie"s, London, 14 December 1962, lot 85 (as Sustermans, bt. Best)
Sale, Christie"s, London, 22 February 1963, lot 24 (as Sustermans, bt. Fuente)
The expensive armour in this portrait, which is blackened and gilded, can be compared to that in the Royal Armoury in Madrid (inv. no. A 417) which is believed to be Flemish. While such armour was often borrowed as a studio-prop by the artist, it nonetheless suggests a sitter of considerable rank and high military status. The coat-of-arms would suggest an English sitter: its emblazon (Argent, three fleur-de-lis sable within a bordure of azure and or) may indicate that he is a cadet of the Baildon family of Baildon Hall in Yorkshire (whose arms are Argent, a fess sable between three fleurs-de-lys sable). Baildon Hall is just 21 miles from Appletreewick, where the 1st Earl of Craven"s family originated before he moved to London and served as a military commander in the Thirty Years" War and may account for the provenance of this portrait. For a portrait of William, later 1st Earl of Craven (of the second creation) by Thomas Beach see lot 54.
Flemish School, early 17th Century
Portrait of gentleman, three-quarter-length, in armour, standing before a curtain
charged with the sitter"s coat-of-arms (upper right)
oil on canvas
125.6 x 102cm (49 7/16 x 40 3/16in).
