An Unknown Lady aged 26
Paulus Moreelse (Utrecht 1571 - Utrecht 1638)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1632 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1118 x 1041 mm (44 x 41 in)
Place of origin
Utrecht
Order this imageCollection
Osterley Park and House, London
NT 773346
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, An Unknown Lady aged 26 by Paulus Moreelse (Utrecht 1571 - Utrecht 1638), signed and dated: upper left: Aetat: 26/PM [in ligature]/1632. A three-quarter-length portrait, standing wearing a black dress, white lace falling band and cuffs, the woman has fair hair and wears pearl ornament and a white headdress, she wears pearl jewellery. She faces forward looking slightly over her left shoulder; she wears a lace bonnet and lace collar and cuffs over a black full lenght skirt. It is believed she is 28 years old, of a Dutch aristocratic family, and married to the male figure shown in NT/WOR/P/5
Provenance
George Wilder, Stansted Park; his sale, Christie’s, 19 May 1911, lot 17 (the pair); bought by Asher Wertheimer (1844-1918) for 1,550 guineas, by whom presumably sold to Adolph Hirsch (1862-1922) and consigned to his widow Georgette; W. Sabin, London, in 1938, again consigned on behalf of Georgette Hirsch, by then as Mrs George Cornwallis-West (she re-married, as his third wife, in 1940), via Partridge & Son, to Christie’s, on 2 March 1945, but not put into a sale, and taken back; again consigned to Christie’s by Major R.J. Pinto (1892-1969), the husband of Adolph Hirsch’s daughter Gladys, on behalf of the trustees of Adolph Hirsch; put up for auction on 10 December 1948, lot 135, but bought in; Mrs Gladys Pinto (1899-1985), by whom lent to the National Trust in 1974; placed in Wordsworth House 1975-2003; inherited by her son, George Richard Pinto (1929-2018), and transferred to Osterley Park, after restoration, in 2004; donated to the National Trust under the terms of the will of George Richard Pinto, 2020.
Makers and roles
Paulus Moreelse (Utrecht 1571 - Utrecht 1638), artist
References
Jonge 1938 C.H. de Jonge, Paulus Moreelse, 1938, no.228, pl.143