Boy in a Red Cloak
Carel van Savoy (Antwerp 1621- Amsterdam 1665)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1640 - 1665
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
667 x 540 mm (26 1/4 x 21 1/4 in)
Place of origin
Holland
Collection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486178
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Boy in a Red Cloak by Carel van Savoy (Antwerp 1621- Amsterdam 1665), previously catalogued as style of or Rembrandt School. A half-length portrait of a boy, full face and with auburn hair, wearing a vermilion cloak, black hat and copper-brown doublet.
Provenance
In the collection of the 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) by 1835 as 'Murillo'; 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 HM 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)
Makers and roles
Carel van Savoy (Antwerp 1621- Amsterdam 1665) , artist previously catalogued as style of Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden 1606 – Amsterdam 1669), artist previously catalogued as school of Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden 1606 – Amsterdam 1669), artist previously catalogued as by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Seville 1617 - Seville 1682), artist
References
Phillips 1835 Henry Wyndham Phillips, Catalogue of the Pictures in Petworth House, the seat of the Earl of Egremont.The Collection of Pictures at Petworth House. 1835, Victoria & Albert Museum, MSS.86.FF.67., no. 119 Collins Baker 1920 C.H.Collins Baker, Catalogue of the Petworth Collection of Pictures, in the possession of Lord Leconfield, privately printed by the Medici Society, London, 1920, p. 102, no. 119 Sumowski 1983-1990 Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Landau/Pfalz, 5 vols 1983-1990, IV, pp. 2538 and 2548, no. 1697a, illustrated National Trust 2013 (ed. Alastair Laing and Tania Adams), Oil paintings in National Trust Properties in National Trust V: South, The Public Catalogue Foundation, 2013 , p. 382 Old Master and British Paintings, Christie's, London, 3 December 2014, lot 148, illus. p. 61