Follower of Sir Anthony van Dyck

Portrait of Mary, Lady Gerard, of Bromley, full-length, in a blue dress, a dog at her side, beside a classical urn on a plinth on which rests a lizard

Details

Follower of Sir Anthony van Dyck
Portrait of Mary, Lady Gerard, of Bromley, full-length, in a blue dress, a dog at her side, beside a classical urn on a plinth on which rests a lizard
with indentifying inscription (lower left)
oil on canvas
82 x 52 in. (209.6 x 133.4 cm.)

Provenance

presumably by descent in the sitter's family to
Anthony, 13th Earl of Westmorland, Apethorpe Hall, Northamptonshire; Christie's, 2 June 1892, lot 105, as by Mytens (sold together with lot 104, 52 gns. to Graves).
Major Philip Gribble; Christie's, 20 June 1975, lot 43 (sold 450 gns.).

Lot Essay

The sitter was the second daughter of Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland and his wife Mary, only surviving daughter and heiress of Sir Anthony Mildmay, of Apethorpe Hall, Northamptonshire. She married Dutton Gerard, 3rd Baron Gerard (d.1640), as his first wife. Their son Charles succeeded as the 4th Baron Gerard on his father's death.

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