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Frans Hals Dutch, c. 1582/1583 - 1666 Portrait of a Gentleman, 1650/1652 oil on canvas, 114 x 85 cm (45 x 33 1/2 in.) Widener Collection 1942.9.29 |
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Provenance
Probably bequeathed by Lord Frederick Campbell [d. 1816] to William Pitt, 1st Earl Amherst [1773-1857], Montreal, Sevenoaks, Kent;[1] by inheritance to William Pitt, 2nd Earl Amherst [1805-1886]; by inheritance to William Archer, 3rd Earl Amherst [1836-1910]; by inheritance to Hugh, 4th Earl Amherst [1856-1927];[2] (Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris); sold 13 January 1911 to Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.
[1] According to Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century..., 8 vols., trans. from the German edition, London, 1907-1927, 3: 294, bequeathed by Lord Frederick Campbell to an ancestor of Earl Amherst. According to notes of Edith Standen, Widener's curator, in NGA curatorial files, the painting was bequeathed about 1820 by Lord Frederick Campbell to Lord Amherst. The Getty Provenance Index identified this ancestor of Earl Amherst as William Pitt.
[2] Although the ownership of the 2nd and 3rd Earl Amherst cannot be documented, Charles Sedelmeyer, Illustrated Catalogue of the Eleventh Series of 100 Paintings by Old Masters, Paris, 1911, no. 11, lists the work as from the collection of Lord Amherst, in whose family it had been for nearly one hundred years. Transcript of bill of sale (in NGA curatorial files) from Sedelmeyer Gallery to Widener repeats this information.
Associated Names
- Archer, Hugh, 4th Earl of Amherst
- Archer, William, 3rd Earl of Amherst
- Campbell, Frederick, Lord
- Pitt, William, 1st Earl of Amherst
- Pitt, William, 2nd Earl of Amherst
- Sedelmeyer Gallery
- Widener, Joseph E.
- Widener, Peter Arrell Brown
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