Lot 226 , Attributed to Pieter Nason (Dutch, 1612-1688), Portrait of a noble woman wearing a pearl set crown and elaborate embroidered dress, oil on canvas, 80 x 63cm

Attributed to Pieter Nason (Dutch, 1612-1688)
Portrait of a noble woman wearing a pearl set crown and elaborate embroidered dress
oil on canvas
80 x 63cm
£3,000-4,000

Condition:
Oil on canvas relined many years ago, canvas remains tight, paint looks rather dirty with a fine craquelure scattered throughout which is just starting to lift most notably on her forehead and has some flaking in the lower right corner, housed in a later carved giltwood frame which is now a little dusty and tatty. Formerly attributed to Willem Wissing, Christie's stencil number 379L? to the stretcher. Provenance: Formerly the property of the vendors’ great-great-grandparent the Abyssinian explorer Mansfield Parkyns (1823-1894), who had it reframed in the mid C19th on inheriting it from his father – so it is believed to have been in the one family for about 200 years. The painting was cleaned in March-May 1926 by Ayerst Hooker Buttery, who identified it as being a late C17th portrait of a Queen of Bohemia by Daniel Mytens (presumably D.M. the Younger 1644-1688). Mr Buttery’s letter (which can be included in the sale) does not say why he concluded this. More recently it has been suggested that it could alternatively be by Pieter Nason.

Sold for £3,800