Portrait of a Nobleman

Former TitlePortrait of Dr. Cole

Artist Adriaen Hanneman (Dutch, 1603 - 1671)

Dateca. 1655

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsUnframed: 31 1/2 × 25 1/2 inches (80.01 × 64.77 cm)
Framed: 53 1/8 × 47 5/16 × 3 7/8 inches (134.94 × 120.17 × 9.84 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Henry A. Auerbach and Mrs. Ruth A. Hirsch in memory of Henry A. Auerbach

Object number56-89

SignedNone

On View

On view

Gallery Location

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DescriptionA young man is seen half-length, his body (and head) turned leftward, with his glance directed full-front to the viewer. Only his left hand is visible; it is turned against his chest. The subject has long, flowing, light-brown hair and a faint moustache. He wears a long, white collar and a black doublet. At upper left is a coat-of-arms consisting of a red ground on which is a golden eagle's foot (according to ter Kuile).Exhibition History

Exhibition History

No known exhibition history at this time.

Gallery Label

Adriaen Hanneman enjoyed a great reputation in his day both in his native Holland and in England. In this portrait the elegance of the sitter's pose is effectively complimented by the down to earth realism of the face, which one suspects was an excellent likeness. At the time this portrait was painted Hanneman was court painter to Mary Princess of Orange at the Hague.

Provenance

Sir Alexander Peregrine Fuller-Acland-Hood, 2nd Baron St. Audries (1893-1971), Somerset, England, as Van Dyck, by 1925;

Purchased at his sale, The Property of the Rt. Hon. Lord St. Audries, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, April 8, 1925, lot 60, as Portrait of a Gentleman by Van Dyck, by Reyre, London, 1925 [1];

Private collection by 1927;

Purchased from the latter by James P. Labey, Paris, for John Levy Galleries, New York and London, by 1927;

Purchased from Levy Galleries by W. C. Findlay Gallery, Kansas City, MO, 1927;

Purchased from Findlay by Henry A. Auerbach (1866-1948), Kansas City, MO, June 1, 1927-May 7, 1948;

Inherited by his widow, Rosine Auerbach (1878-1968), Kansas City, MO, May 7, 1948-August 9, 1956;

Given by Auerbach and her daughter, Ruth Aline Hirsch (née Auerbach, b. ca. 1904), to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1956.

NOTES:

[1] Probably Anthony F. Reyre, owner of Van Meer Gallery in London, who was also buying at other sales at this time. See e-mail from Jeff Pilkington, Christie’s London, to MacKenzie Mallon, January 11, 2013, in NAMA curatorial files.

Published References

Catalogue of Old Pictures, The Property of The Right Hon. Lord St. Audries, Also Old Pictures and Drawings from Various Sources (London: Christie, Manson and Woods, April 8, 1925), 10, as by Van Dyck.

Gallery News (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art; Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts/ The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts) (October 1956): 89.

Art Quarterly 21 (Spring 1957): 98, (repro.).

Onno ter Kuile, Adriaen Hanneman (1604-1671): Een Haags Portretschilder (Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands, 1976), no. 37, pp. 88-89, (repro.).

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