Old Masters Day Auction

Old Masters Day Auction

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 133. Portrait of William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (1580–1630).

Property formerly from the Collection of the Bermuda National Trust

Daniel Mytens and Studio

Portrait of William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (1580–1630)

Lot Closed

July 7, 01:32 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property formerly from the Collection of the Bermuda National Trust


Daniel Mytens and Studio

Delft circa 1590 - 1647/8 The Hague

Portrait of William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (1580–1630)


oil on canvas, reduced on the right-hand side, with an extension of 10cm. to the lower margin

unframed: 238.8 x 147.5 cm.; 94 x 58 in.

framed: 254.8 x 163.5 cm.; 100¼ x 64⅜ in.

Captain Denzil Cope (1873–1940), Bramshill Park, Hampshire;
By whom sold Christie's, London, 9 April 1937, lot 70 (as D. Mytens) purchased by Waters for £28.7s.0d.;
Arthur Ronald Nall Nall-Cain, 2nd Baron Brocket (1904–1967), Bramshill Park, Hampshire;
By whom sold Sotheby's, London, 16 July 1952, lot 83 (as D. Mytens) purchased by Buttery for £120;
Bermuda National Trust.
M. Toynbee, ‘A Charles I Conversation Piece’, in The Burlington Magazine, 79, 1947, p. 247 (as Mytens);
N. Trentham, The Bermudian, November 1953, pp. 22 and 44–45;
O. Ter Kuile, ‘Daniel Mijtens: ‘His Majesties Picture-Drawer’’, in Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, vol. 20, 1969, pp. 87–88, no. 83 (as Daniel Mytens c. 1625), reproduced fig. 39.
J. Howarth, The Steenwyck Family as Masters of Perspective, Turnhout 2009, pp. 270–71, no. II. F 12 (as Hendrick van Steenwyck the Younger and Daniel Mytens).