Self portrait c.1640

Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641)

Oil on canvas

23 ½ x 18 ¾ inches; 59.7 x 47.3 cm

Provenance:

Probably Sir Peter Lely, d. 1680;
Probably his sale 18th April 1682 (bt. by Lord Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford (1619-1708) for £34);
Richard Graham (fl. 1695-1727) until sold in his sale, Peletier London, 6 March 1712, lot 41, bt by Sir Francis Child the Younger (1684-1740);
by descent to his nephew Robert Child (1739-1782) of Osterley Park;
by descent to his grand-daughter Lady Sarah Sophia Fane (1785-1867) who married George Child-Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey and 8th Viscount Grandison (1773-1859) of Osterley Park, Middlesex and Middleton Park, Oxfordshire;
by descent, until sold, Sothebys London, 4 December 2009.

Exhibited:

London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Old Masters from Jersey Collections, 1952, no. 11;
London, National Portrait Gallery, Van Dyck in England, 1982, no. 65;
London, Tate Gallery, Van Dyck in Britain, 2009, no. 67

Literature:

G. Gluck, 'Reflections on Van Dyck's Early Death,' The Burlington Magazine, 1941, vol. 79, no. 465, p. 194;
Possibly, 'Sir Peter Lely's Collection', Editorial, The Burlington Magazine, August 1943, p. 187;
E. Larsen, L'Opera Completa di Van Dyck, Milan, 1980, no. 757;
E. Larsen, The Paintings of Anthony van Dyck, Freren, 1988, Vol. II, no. 1018;
R. Davids, The Artist as a Portrait, London 2000, p. 48;
E.E.S. Gordenker, Anthony van Dyck and the Representation of Dress in Seventheenth Century Portraiture, Brepols 2001, pp. 61, 118 no. 126;
S Barnes, N de Poorter, O Millar, H Vey, Van Dyck: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, Yale & London, 2004, no. IV.5, p. 432