An Unknown Man aged 34
Paulus Moreelse (Utrecht 1571 - Utrecht 1638)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1632 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1070 x 940 mm
Place of origin
Utrecht
Order this imageCollection
Osterley Park and House, London
NT 773347
Summary
Oil painting on panel, An Unknown Gentleman, aged 34 by Paulus Moreelse (Utrecht 1571 - Utrecht 1638), signed and dated: upper left: Ætat: 34/PM [in ligature]/1632. A three-quarter-length portrait of a man, standing wearing a suit of black striped silk, black sash around the middle, white lace falling ruff and cuffs, he has fair hair and a moustache and carries gloves and a hat. He faces forward looking slightly over his right shoulder and he holds a piece of fabric in his left hand. It is believed he is 35 years old, of a Dutch aristocratic family, and married to the female figure shown in NT/WOR/P/4
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