Van der Doort c.1639
WS 83, № 34
(Gentleman at Brussels)
(Glass with some) Roses, 2 province white, yellow and eglantine
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
10in x 1ft 5in (25.4 x 43.2cm)
Medium:
panel
Light:
light from the left
Provenance:
given by a certain [?] person at Brussels (by means of Sir Anthony van Dyck)
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
gift
Notes:
note included on Windsor MS, f. 10v that this is one of 5 works sent to Mr [John] Hoskins at your Majesty's order, others being Great Flower Pot at Nonsuch, 2 Fetti Friars - Whitehall, Long Gallery and Hampton Court Gallery [and presumably Cabinet Room no 23]
Hang notes:
above the door, [currently] with Mr [John] Hoskins by your majesty's appointment
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. 11; MS Ash 1514, f. 104 and V&A MS, f. 30, no 38 (WS 209)
Charles II inventory c1666:
Whitehall, no. 589, 25 x 46
Interpreting the text:
Text in brackets from the V&A MS and MS Ash 1514
Identification certainty:
Unknown
Sale Inventory c.1649-51