Ary De Vois

Exhibited by Dickinson

Material Oil on copper

Dimensions 17 x 13.3 cm

Status Vetted

About the Work

Ary de Vois, Portrait of the Artist as "The Lover", c. 1660.

Provenance

Edward William Lake, Esq., no. 40 Oxford Terrace, Hyde Park, London, by 1832;
His Sale, Christie’s, London, 11 July 1845, lot 37 (‘Ary de Vois. The Lover…A rare and exquisite gem’; £42 to Eckford).
(Presumably) Henry George Eckford (1807 – 1893), London, acquired from the above sale.
(Presumably) Sir Francis Cook, 1st Bt. (1817 – 1901), Doughty House, Richmond, (probably) acquired from the above; thence by descent to his son
Sir Frederick Cook, 2nd Bt. (1844 – 1920), Doughty House, Richmond; thence by descent to his son
Sir Herbert Cook, 3rd Bt (1868 – 1939), Doughty House, Richmond.
Frost and Read, London, 1949.
Agnew’s, London.
Private Collection, by 1992.
Anon. Sale; Christie’s, London, 11 December 1992, lot 73 (£36,000 to Agnew’s).
Private Collection, Australia, acquired through Agnew’s, London.

Literature

Catalogue of pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, and French masters, with which the proprietors have favoured the Institution, British Institution, May, 1836, no. 63.
H. Cook (ed.), A Catalogue of the Paintings at Doughty House Richmond & Elsewhere in the Collection of Sir Frederick Cook Bt, London, 1914, vol. III, pp. 111, 124, no. 376 (as hanging in the Long Gallery, no. 83).
The painting is recorded on the RKD image database under no. 138610:
RKD Research | Self Portrait of Ary de Vois (1632/1635-1680)