Framed 17th C. Flemish Portrait after Van Dyck

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Feb 13, 2020

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• Lot Description
  Flemish artist, late 17th century. After Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599-1641). "Portrait of Margareta de Vos" ca. 1620. Another possibility was that it was created in Anthony van Dyck's Studio which likely continued in London, England where he died in 1641 until the end of the 17th century. An Old Master portrait modeled after Anthony Van Dyck's portrait of Margareta de Vos which is owned by the Frick Collection in New York City (Accession Number 1909.1.42) and may be viewed in the West Gallery. Margareta de Vos was the daughter of a distiller, the sister of three painters, and the wife of Frans Snyders, an artist who was known for his paintings of animals and still lifes and had elite patrons, including the King of Spain. Size: 18.5" L x 14.375" W (47 cm x 36.5 cm); 26.75" L x 22.625" W (67.9 cm x 57.5 cm) including frame
  
  The Frick Collection's description of Anthony van Dyck's painting: "Margareta de Vos was the daughter of a distiller and sister of three painters. In Van Dyck’s depiction, De Vos’s gleaming and starched millstone collar would have served as a striking token of prosperity …" (Source: Paintings in The Frick Collection: American, British, Dutch, Flemish and German. Volume I. New York: The Frick Collection, 1968.)
  
  The Frick Collection also has van Dyck's portrait of Margareta de Vos' husband, the artist Frans Snyders. Their curatorial description reads: "Frans Snyders was celebrated for his paintings of animals and still lifes and counted the king of Spain among his clients. At the end of the 1610s, Van Dyck collaborated with the Snyders on several paintings, and these joint projects may have led him to sit for this portrait by Van Dyck, who was approximately twenty years old at the time. A likely occasion for the commission of this and the depiction of Snyders’s wife, Margareta de Vos, was the couple's purchase of a large house on Antwerp's most prestigious street, which still survives today. The architectural setting of a terrace overlooking parkland evokes the sitters' status as wealthy patricians, while locating the portraits in a single space."
  
  The pigmentation of this painting was XRF tested and composition is consistent with paint used by artists in the 17th century.
  
  Provenance: The William F. Draper Collection, New York City, USA, acquired via descent from the late William Franklin Draper (1912-2003), an accomplished American artist whose career spanned seven decades. Known as the "Dean of American Portraiture," William Draper was the only artist to paint President John F. Kennedy from life, and his oeuvre includes marvelous landscapes from his world travels, military paintings as he was one of only seventeen Combat Artists in WWII, and portraits of illustrious individuals.
  
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  #152724

  Condition

  Expected age wear with scuffs particularly at peripheries. Label on the verso states "Attributed to Van Dyck 'Margareta Snyders (de Vos)' ". A very old label on the verso states, "P. P. Rubens – Ritratto della .. moglie Elena Fo (urmen)". However, a consulted Old Master expert has deemed this painting to be by a late 17th Flemish artist after Anthony van Dyck's portrait of Margareta de Vos (ca. 1620) in the Frick Collection or by an artist in van Dyck's studio which continued in London, England following his death in 1641. A third old label has text in Italian that is incomplete but visible in our photos. "Put shadow" is handwritten on the back of the frame at the lower right. There are also red seals on the verso, perhaps from early export authorization. Verso of canvas has darkened over the years. Old perforations and remains of old gallery paper on verso of frame and stretchers. Expected age cracks and losses to the framing, but still serviceable.
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