26th May, 2021 12:00
European & Asian Works of Art
436
A PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF A GENTLEMAN
A PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF A GENTLEMAN, ENGLISH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1640 AND LATER
brown hair, wearing a white lawn collar over armour, on vellum, bears initials IH, gold bezel, gilt-metal Renaissance style frame with black and white enamelled edge set with three pendent pearls, strapwork reverse
5.9cm oval
The sitter was previously thought to be James, 1st Earl of Callander (before 1611-1674), described as the work of John Hoskins the elder.
Provenance: Christie’s, London, June 5, 2007, lot 101; sold by a descendant of Ursula Vanda Maud (b. 1912), Countess of Glasgow; bequeathed to her by Francis Denis Lycett Green (1893-1959); sold Christie's, London, 16 February 1949, lot 97 (as James, 1st Earl of Callender [sic] by John Hoskins, 110 gns. to Agnew) from the Harry Seal Collection, Ullesthorpe House, Rugby; John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) Collection, New York; Christie's, London, 24-27 June 1935, lot 141 (as the Earl of Callendar [sic] by John Hoskins, 85 gns. to Seal)
Literature: G.C. Williamson, ‘Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan’s Pictures, The Early Miniatures, II’, The Connoisseur, January 1907, vol. XV11, illustrated p.6 No. XXV (as the Earl of Callender by John Hoskins); G.C. Williamson, ‘Catalogue of the Collection of Miniatures. The Property of J. Pierpont Morgan’, London, 1907, p.80 , No.83, illustrated pl.XXXV111 (as the Earl of Callendar by John Hoskins the elder); J.J. Foster, ‘Samuel Cooper and the English Miniature Painters of the XV11 Century’, Supplement, London, 1914-16, p.124, No.24 (as James 1st Earl of Callender by John Hoskins)
Sold for £4,200
A PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF A GENTLEMAN, ENGLISH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1640 AND LATER
brown hair, wearing a white lawn collar over armour, on vellum, bears initials IH, gold bezel, gilt-metal Renaissance style frame with black and white enamelled edge set with three pendent pearls, strapwork reverse
5.9cm oval
The sitter was previously thought to be James, 1st Earl of Callander (before 1611-1674), described as the work of John Hoskins the elder.
Provenance: Christie’s, London, June 5, 2007, lot 101; sold by a descendant of Ursula Vanda Maud (b. 1912), Countess of Glasgow; bequeathed to her by Francis Denis Lycett Green (1893-1959); sold Christie's, London, 16 February 1949, lot 97 (as James, 1st Earl of Callender [sic] by John Hoskins, 110 gns. to Agnew) from the Harry Seal Collection, Ullesthorpe House, Rugby; John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) Collection, New York; Christie's, London, 24-27 June 1935, lot 141 (as the Earl of Callendar [sic] by John Hoskins, 85 gns. to Seal)
Literature: G.C. Williamson, ‘Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan’s Pictures, The Early Miniatures, II’, The Connoisseur, January 1907, vol. XV11, illustrated p.6 No. XXV (as the Earl of Callender by John Hoskins); G.C. Williamson, ‘Catalogue of the Collection of Miniatures. The Property of J. Pierpont Morgan’, London, 1907, p.80 , No.83, illustrated pl.XXXV111 (as the Earl of Callendar by John Hoskins the elder); J.J. Foster, ‘Samuel Cooper and the English Miniature Painters of the XV11 Century’, Supplement, London, 1914-16, p.124, No.24 (as James 1st Earl of Callender by John Hoskins)
Auction: European & Asian Works of Art, 26th May, 2021
