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Frans Hals (artist) Dutch, c. 1582/1583 - 1666 Adriaen van Ostade, 1646/1648 oil on canvas overall: 94 x 75 cm (37 x 29 1/2 in.) Andrew W. Mellon Collection 1937.1.70 On View |
Object 5 of 7
Provenance
Buckston family, Sutton on the Hill, Derbyshire; (sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 5-6 May 1919, 2nd day, no. 285);[1] (Thomas Agnew & Sons, Arthur J. Sulley & Co., and Colnaghi & Co., London); acquired 9 May 1919 by (M. Knoedler & Co., London); sold 1 November 1919 to Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.; deeded 28 December 1934 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1937 to NGA.
[1] In this auction the picture was listed as Portrait of the Artist by Nicholas Berghem [Berchem]. The auction catalogue states that the painting was "The Property of a Gentleman". Francis Russell of Christie's, in a letter of 10 March 2003 to Arthur Wheelock, kindly provided the name of the family that consigned the painting.
Associated Names
- Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Thomas
- Buckston family
- Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
- Knoedler & Company, M.
- Mellon, Andrew W.
- Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
- Sotheby's, London
- Sulley & Co., Arthur J.
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