Unidentified

May have been received from the Duke of Hamilton along with the Cranach Adam and Eve (van der Doort, WS 90, no 76) in exchange for two early Netherlandish wing panels of the Burning of the Bones of John the Baptist and the Lamentation by Geertgen tot Sint Jans which came from the Dutch States General in 1635 now in Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum (no 993 and no 991). See J. Bruyn, "Notes on the Royal Collection-III: The'Dutch Gift'to Charles I", Burlington Magazine, 1962 and J. Wood, ‘Buying and Selling Art in Venice, London and Antwerp: The Collection of Bartolomeo Della Nave and the Dealings of James, Third Marquis of Hamilton, Anthony van Dyck, and Jan and Jacob van Veerle, c.1637-50’, Walpole Society, Volume 80, 2018, pp. 1-200

Van der Doort c.1639

Lucas Cranach

Dr Martin Luther

Walpole Society reference (1960): 
WS 86, № 51
Measurements (Van der Doort): 
4in x 4in (10.2 x 10.2cm)
Light: 
light from the right
Frame: 
octagonal black ebony frame
Provenance: 
Marquis of Hamilton, bought at Greenwich
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited: 
bought
Hang notes: 
under the above (no. 50)
Location: 
Room description extended: 
By your majesty's especially command your pictures and rarities which you had kept at St James's in the Cabinet Room were transported and brought to Whitehall into the Privy Gallery in your Majesty's newly-erected Cabinet Room, whereof the particulars as well of the said rarities from St James's as also other Pictures medals agates or the like since by Your Majesty thereunto augmented, as by the number and bigness particularly signified doth appear as followeth
Original Manuscript page number: 
Windsor MS., f. 14
Identification certainty: 
Unknown
Sale Inventory c.1649-51