An Unknown Genoese Lady

attributed to Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641)
National Trust Inventory Number 486199

Category	Paintings
Date	Unknown
Materials	Oil on canvas
Measurements
Place of origin

Collection	Petworth, West Sussex (Accredited Museum)
On show at	Petworth, West Sussex, London and South East, National Trust

Summary description

Oil painting on canvas, An Unknown Genoese Lady, attributed to Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641). Half-length portrait of a woman, turned slightly to the left, gazing at the spectator, wearing a black dress and with her right hand fingering a gold chain on her breast.

Provenance

In the collection of the 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) by 1835. Thence by descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.

Makers and roles

attributed to Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641), artist

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