Queen Henrietta Maria with Sir Jeffrey Hudson

Sir Anthony van Dyck
Flemish, 1599 - 1641
Queen Henrietta Maria with Sir Jeffrey Hudson, 1633
oil on canvas, 219.1 x 134.8 cm (86 1/4 x 53 1/16 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1952.5.39

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Provenance

Richard Newport, 2nd earl of Bradford, Weston Park, Stafford; by inheritance to his son, Henry Newport, 3rd earl of Bradford [1683-1734], Weston Park; by inheritance to his brother, Thomas Newport, 4th earl of Bradford [d. 1762], Weston Park; by inheritance to his sister, Diana Newport Coote, Countess of Mountrath [d. 1766], widow of Algernon Coote, 6th earl of Mountrath [1689-1744], Ireland; by inheritance to their son, Charles Henry Coote, 7th and last earl of Mountrath [d. 1802], Dereham Abbey, Norfolk; Joseph Damer, 1st earl of Dorchester [d. 1798], Milton Abbey, Dorset; by inheritance to his son, George Damer, 2nd and last earl of Dorchester [1746-1808], Milton Abbey; by inheritance to his sister, Caroline Damer [1752-1829], Milton Abbey; by inheritance to her cousin, John Dawson, 1st earl of Portarlington [1744-1798], Milton Abbey; by inheritance to his son, John Dawson, 2nd earl of Portarlington [1781-1845], Milton Abbey; by inheritance to his nephew, Henry John Reuben Dawson-Damer, 3rd earl of Portarlington [1822-1889], Emo Park, Queens County, Ireland; by exchange 1881 to Thomas George Baring, 1st earl of Northbrook [1826-1904], Stratton Park, Hampshire; by inheritance to his son, Francis George Baring, 2nd earl of Northbrook [1850-1929], Stratton Park;[1] sold March 1927 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York);[2] sold to William Randolph Hearst [1863-1951], San Simeon, California, by 1929; on consignment 1938 with (M. Knoedler and Co., New York) by (Parish-Watson and Co., New York), probably for Hearst; returned 1939 to Hearst; (his sale, held at Gimbel's and Saks Fifth Avenue by Hammer Galleries, New York, 25 March 1941, no. 174-1);[3] consigned 1952 by Hearst to (M. Knoedler and Co., New York); sold September 1952 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[4] gift 1952 to NGA.

[1] Provenance prior to Duveen Brothers is according to Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Susan J. Barnes, et al., Anthony van Dyck, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1990: 262, no. 67, which in turn is based on Northbrook Gallery. An Illustrated Descriptive and Historic Account of the Collection of the Earl of Northbrook, G.C.S.I., Lord Ronald Gower, ed., London, 1885: 29, and J. Weale and J.P. Richter, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures Belonging to the Earl of Northbrook, London, 1889: 92. The transfer from Charles Henry Coote, 7th earl of Mountrath, who died in 1802, to Joseph Damer, 1st earl of Dorchester, must have taken place before 1798, when Damer died.

[2] See the letter of 10 March 1927 confirming receipt of payment for seven of the Northbrook paintings, including Queen Henrietta Maria, Sir Jeffrey Hudson and a Monkey, in the Duveen Brothers Records (Box 269, folder 16, reel 124; accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; copy in NGA curatorial files, kindly supplied by Patricia Teter).

[3] The sale was stopped by Hearst after some months and lots not sold returned to his possession. The painting was presumably bought in, as Hearst owned the painting again in 1952. However, according to John Walker, Self-Portrait with Donors: Confessions of an Art Collector, Boston and Toronto, 1974: 222, it was sold for $124,998.

[4] The details of Hearst's ownership and consignments are according to the Getty Provenance Index; the painting was Knoedler number CA 1214 when consigned in 1938, and number CA 4038 when consigned in 1952. The bill of sale from Knoedler to the Kress Foundation is dated 5 September 1952 and marked paid September 18 (copy in NGA curatorial files).

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