Van der Doort c.1639
WS 80, № 22
Good German painter
German Man and Wife, he in a fur hat and habit, she in much linen about her head (night gear), in a landscape, less-than-life-size half-length
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
1ft 2in x 2ft 1in (or 1ft 1in x 2ft 1in) (33 x 63.5cm)
Light:
light from the left
Frame:
black frame
Provenance:
brought from Germany and given to your majesty by Sir Henry Vane
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
gift
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. 7 and V&A MS, f. 28, no 26 (WS 208) and and MS. Ash. 1514, f. 101
Charles II inventory c1666:
Whitehall, no 304, 36 x 63.5
Interpreting the text:
The text in brackets comes from the V&A and Ashmolean Mss
Identification certainty:
Identified
Sale Inventory c.1649-51