Queen Henrietta Maria (1609–1669)
studio of Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1630 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1880 x 1156 mm (74 x 45 1/2 in)
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Upton House, Warwickshire
NT 446770
Caption
Henrietta Maria was the youngest daughter of Henry IV and Marie de’ Medici. She was Queen Consort of Charles I, whom she married in 1625. A similar picture is in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Queen Henrietta Maria (1606-1669), studio of Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641). Full length portrait, standing slightly right on a carpet, head turned to the left, wearing a gold coloured satin dress with white lace collar and cuffs, her left hand resting on a table covered with blue-green cloth on which is her crown, her right hand at her waist.
Provenance
Duke of Osuña (according to 1892 sale catalogue, which contains a considerable number of pictures with the same provenance); Murrieta {Although the statement in the sale catalogue that it was part of the collection of 'Messrs. Murrieta' might suggest a firm of dealers, they were in fact members of a family, clearly at one time of immense wealth, and with huge collections, primarily of modern British and Foreign paintings and watercolours. Certain of them held individual sales of parts of their collection, all at Christie's: José de Murrieta, of 11 Kensington Palace Gardens (23 & 24 May 1873 and 4 & 5 Dec. 1874: the latter in fact by order of the Fire Officers, of pictures salvaged from a fire there); Mariano de Murrieta (6 March 1875 & 23-26 Feb. 1894); and [Adriano de Murrieta], Marquès de Santurce (7 April & 16 June 1883, and 25 April 1891 - this last saying "removed from Kensington Palace Gardens"). Messrs. Murrieta together had three gigantic sales (suggesting a collective financial crash): 30 April - 3 May 1892; 14 - 15 May 1892; and 27 Jan. - 4 Feb. 1893. In the catalogue of one of these, the pictures were said to have been removed from Southover, Kensington Palace Gardens, and Carlton House Terrace. José de Murrieta was the first person to - try to - sell a Tissot at auction in England, On the Thames: the frightened heron (24 May 1873, lot 315, b.i. at 570 gns.); Antonio de Murrieta, Marquès de Santurce, later made unsuccessful attempts to sell both it (15 June 1873, lot 164, b.i. at 260 gns.) and The Crack Shot (7 April 1883, lot 151, b.i. at 210 gns.) - which is now at Wimpole (NT). These were, however, the only Tissots put up for auction, and their taste seems otherwise to have inclined rather to Alma-Tadema - or to even safer English artists} sale, Christie's, 14-15 May 1892, lot 123 (as of an unknown sitter [connected in the clerk's copy to Queen Henrietta Maria]); bought by M. Colnaghi for 210 gns.; in the collection of the 1st Lord Bearsted by 1919; given with Upton House to the National Trust by Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted (1882 – 1948) shortly before his death
Credit line
Upton House, The Bearsted Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
studio of Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641), artist