Portrait of a lady, bust-length, in a brown and red dress, within a painted stone cartouche
signed and dated 'GHonthorst.F. 1632' (upper left)
oil on panel
74.3 x 59cm (29 1/4 x 23 1/4in).

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Provenance
Ellen Fenton, Woodhill, Sheffield, by descent to her niece
Ellen Dart (died 1881), by descent to her brother,
Joseph Henry Dart (1817-1887), by descent to
Adeline Frances Mary Dart (1845-1895), widow of Baldwin Francis Duppa (1828-1873) of Hollingbourne House, Kent, by descent to
Catherine Mary, wife of Major O.A. Chambers, by descent to
Frances Catherine Gore (all according to a label on the reverse), and thence by descent to the present owner

From 1630 and for most of the following decade Gerrit van Honthorst worked in The Hague, where he was Court painter for the exiled King and Queen of Bohemia, Frederik and Elizabeth. he also worked there for the Stadholder Frederik Hendrik and his wife, Princess Amalia van Solms

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