Anne Brett, Countess of Middlesex (c.1600 - 1669/70)
studio of Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1620 - 1641
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
2154 x 1270 mm
Place of origin
England
Collection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486174
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Anne Brett, Countess of Middlesex (c.1600 - 1670), studio of Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641). Full-length portrait, standing three-quarters left, in a green dress with rose-copper sleeve linings.
Provenance
In the collection of the 2nd Earl of Egremont (1710-1763) at the time of his death. 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.
Credit line
Petworth House, The Egremont Collection (acquired in lieu of tax by HM Treasury in 1956 and subsequently transferred to the National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Mary Cuxson, Countess of Dorset
Makers and roles
studio of Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Daniel Mytens the elder (Delft c.1590 – The Hague 1648), artist