An Unknown Lady
Dutch School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1538
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
368 x 286 mm (14½ x 11¼ in)
Place of origin
Holland
Order this imageCollection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 960231
Summary
Oil painting on panel, An Unknown Lady, Dutch School, dated 1538. A small half-length portrait of a lady, in a black dress with red sleeves and white hood, holding a rosary.
Provenance
Richard, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1797-1861); the sale of the Stowe collection, 12 September 1848, lot 34 (with An Unknown Man), as portraits of Sir Thomas More and his wife; purchased with its pendant for 18 guineas by Thomas Rutley, for Charles Winn (1795-1874); put up for sale with its pendant at Fullalove’s, Manchester, 1 October 1857, lots 9 and 10, as a pair of ‘portraits by Holbein from the Stowe Collection, and in the Stowe Catalogue are called Sir T. and Lady More’; bought in for £4 10s for the pair; thence by descent; purchased by the National Trust by private treaty from Lord St Oswald in 2010.
Credit line
Nostell Priory, The St Oswald Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Ao 1538 -
Makers and roles
Dutch School, artist
References
Brockwell 1915 Maurice Walter Brockwell, Catalogue of the Pictures and Other Works of Art in the Collection of Lord St Oswald at Nostell Priory, London 1915, cat. no. 71B