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Frans Hals Dutch, c. 1582/1583 - 1666 Portrait of a Young Man, 1646/1648 oil on canvas, 68 x 55.4 cm (26 1/4 x 21 13/16 in.) Andrew W. Mellon Collection 1937.1.71 |
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Provenance
Sir Robert Walpole, 1st earl of Orford [1676-1745], Houghton Hall, Norfolk, by 1736; by inheritance to his son, Robert Walpole, 2nd earl of Orford [1700-1751], Houghton Hall; by inheritance to his son, George Walpole, 3rd earl of Orford [1730-1791], Houghton Hall; sold 1779 through Count Aleksei Semonovich Musin-Pushkin, Russian ambassador to England, to Catherine II, empress of Russia [1729-1796], St. Petersburg; Imperial Hermitage Gallery, St. Petersburg; sold February 1931 through (Matthiesen Gallery, Berlin; P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London; and M. Knoedler & Co., New York) to Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.; deeded 1 May 1937 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1937 to NGA.
Associated Names
- Catherine II of Russia
- Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
- Imperial Hermitage Gallery
- Knoedler & Company, M.
- Matthiesen Gallery
- Mellon, Andrew W.
- Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
- Musin-Pushkin, Aleksei Semonovich, Count
- Walpole, George, 3rd Earl of Orford and 2nd Baron Walpole
- Walpole, Robert, 1st Earl of Orford, Sir
- Walpole, Robert, 2nd Earl of Orford
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