A Small Child in a Fur-lined Cap and with a Necklace with Coral Beads
attributed to Ludger Tom Ring the younger (Munster 1522 - Brunswick 1584)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1583 (bears date)
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
194 x 162 mm (7 5/8 x 6 3/8 in)
Place of origin
Germany
Order this imageCollection
Ascott Estate, Buckinghamshire
NT 1535131
Summary
Oil painting on panel, A Small Child in a Fur-lined Cap and with a Necklace with Coral Beads, attributed to Ludger Tom Ring the younger (Munster 1522 - Brunswick 1584), dated, top left: 1583 A. A half-length portrait facing in black and white frock, coral necklace and black cap edged with white fur; the child's two wrists are visible and part of a piece of coral held in its right hand. It is close to a portrait of a child in a private collection in Stuttgart
Provenance
C. H. Magniac sale, Christie's 2nd July 1892, lot 12 (unattributed); bought by Leopold de Rothschild; given to the National Trust by Anthony de Rothschild (1887- 1961) with the house in 1949
Credit line
Ascott, The Anthony de Rothschild Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
attributed to Ludger Tom Ring the younger (Munster 1522 - Brunswick 1584), artist
References
Ascott, Buckinghamshire, Scala, 2008 by John Martin Robinson and others [pictures entries by Karin Wolfe on basis of Gore entries, 1963 with contributions from Alastair Laing] , no. 103