Lot 3016 - A200 Old Master Paintings - Friday, 01. April 2022, 02.00 PM
Follower of HANS HOLBEIN the Younger
(Augsburg 1497–1543 London)
Portrait of Sir Nicholas Poyntz (1510–1556) at the age of 25.
Oil on panel.
Inscribed and with date lower right: ETATIS SUAE 25 ANNO 1535. Inscribed centre right: IE OBAIS A QUI IE DOIS . IE SERS A QUI ME PLAIST ET SUIS A QUI ME MERITE.
58 × 43 cm.
Provenance:
- Collection of Mrs. J. Bacon, Moor Park, 1778.
- Probably sale Christie's, London, 30.3.1824, Lot 42.
- Probably Seguier collection.
- Collection of Lord Palmerston, 1824.
- Collection of Hon. William Cowper-Temple, 1869.
- Collection of Hon. Evelyn Ashley, England, 1888 (label verso).
- Collection of Wilfried Ashley, 1907.
- Collection of Lady Louis Mountbatten.
- Sale Fischer, Lucerne, 23.11.1957, Lot 2100 (attributed to Jean Clouet).
- Private collection, Switzerland.
Exhibited:
Manchester 1897, Exhibition of the Royal House of Tudor, Manchester Art Gallery, no. 48 (as Hans Holbein) (label verso).
Literature:
John Rowlands: Holbein. The paintings of Hans Holbein the Younger, Oxford 1985, p. 233, cat. no. R24(e) (under "rejected attributions").
- Collection of Mrs. J. Bacon, Moor Park, 1778.
- Probably sale Christie's, London, 30.3.1824, Lot 42.
- Probably Seguier collection.
- Collection of Lord Palmerston, 1824.
- Collection of Hon. William Cowper-Temple, 1869.
- Collection of Hon. Evelyn Ashley, England, 1888 (label verso).
- Collection of Wilfried Ashley, 1907.
- Collection of Lady Louis Mountbatten.
- Sale Fischer, Lucerne, 23.11.1957, Lot 2100 (attributed to Jean Clouet).
- Private collection, Switzerland.
Exhibited:
Manchester 1897, Exhibition of the Royal House of Tudor, Manchester Art Gallery, no. 48 (as Hans Holbein) (label verso).
Literature:
John Rowlands: Holbein. The paintings of Hans Holbein the Younger, Oxford 1985, p. 233, cat. no. R24(e) (under "rejected attributions").
CHF 20 000 / 30 000 | (€ 20 620 / 30 930)
Sold for CHF 24 700 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.