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| Keywords: Sir Anthony van Dyck - Self-portrait.jpg Artwork mld A self-portrait of Sir Anthony van Dyck painted circa 1640 ~ 1640 Oil on canvas Size cm 56 0 46 0 oval Institution National Portrait Gallery London accession number NPG 6987 object history Possibly in the collection of Sir Peter Lely d 1680; Possibly his sale 18th April 1682 bought by Lord Newport 1st Earl of Bradford 1619-1708 for £34 ; Richard Graham fl 1695-1727 until sold in his sale Peletier London 6 March 1712 lot 41 bought by Sir Francis Child the Younger 1684-1740 ; by descent to his nephew Robert Child 1739-1782 of Osterley Park; by descent to his grand-daughter Lady Sarah Sophia Fane 1785-1867 who married George Child-Villiers 5th Earl of Jersey and 8th Viscount Grandison 1773-1859 of Osterley Park Middlesex and Middleton Park Oxfordshire; by descent Sotheby's London 9 November 2009 realized £8 329 250 including hammer price and buyer's premium exhibition history London Arts Council of Great Britain Old Masters from Jersey Collections 1952 no 11; London National Portrait Gallery Van Dyck in England 1982 no 65; London Tate Gallery Van Dyck in Britain 2009 no 67; credit line The painting was purchased in a 2009 Sotheby's sale by the collector Alfred Bader and art dealer Philip Mould These offered the painting in 2010 to the National Portrait Gallery and the Tate Museum in London for £9 500 00 The museums were unable to raise the necessary funds and in 2013 Bader and Mould arranged a private sale with the art collector James Stunt for £12 500 000 Stunt lives in Los Angeles for much of the year and was obliged to apply for an export license The UK government placed a three month export ban on the painting to allow an attempt to raise the funds to buy the painting for the nation Stunt noting the public support for the campaign withdrew his application for an export license Finally the National Portrait gallery purchased the painting in 2014 with the aid of £1 44 million donated by more than 10 000 individuals £1 2 million donated by two private trusts and a £6 343 500 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund The painting is held in an important seventeenth century Italianate Mannerist style English frame S Barnes N de Poorter O Millar H Vey Van Dyck A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings Yale London 2004 no IV 5 p 432 http //www sothebys com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/lot pdf L09636 html/f/8/L09636-8 pdf Sotheby's sale catalogue 2009 http //www thehistoryblog com/archives/30352 The History Blog http //www thehistoryblog com/archives/30352 The History Blog info http //www thehistoryblog com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Van-Dyck-self-portrait-1641 jpg The History Blog image PD-old-100 PD-US <gallery> File Anthony van Dyck - Zelfportret jpg Sotheby's image uploaded to sRGB colour space from uncalibrated ex GIMP 2 6 7 image processing software File Sir Anthony van Dyck - Self-portrait - NPG 6987 jpg National Portrait Gallery image File Sir Anthony van Dyck c 1640 by Anthony van Dyck National Portrait Gallery London UK - 20140628-01 jpg Framed </gallery> Uploaded with UploadWizard | ||||
