The Property of a Gentleman
GEORGE GELDORP | PORTRAIT OF A LADY, HALF-LENGTH, IN A SLASHED BLACK DRESS WITH A LACE COLLAR AND RUFF, POSSIBLY IDENTIFIABLE AS ELIZABETH CARY, VISCOUNTESS FALKLAND (1585-1639)
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September 23, 02:18 PM GTNN
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The Property of a Gentleman
GEORGE GELDORP
Cologne 1595 - 1665 London
PORTRAIT OF A LADY, HALF-LENGTH, IN A SLASHED BLACK DRESS WITH A LACE COLLAR AND RUFF, POSSIBLY IDENTIFIABLE AS ELIZABETH CARY, VISCOUNTESS FALKLAND (1585-1639)
oil on canvas
unframed: 71.9 x 60.9 cm.; 28¼ x 24 in.
framed: 107.8 x 96.5 cm.; 42½ x 38 in.
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Mrs. Alfred Butt (d. 1960);
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 12 April 1946, lot 92, for £15.15s. (as C. Jonson);
Where acquired by Vera Pauline Klinger;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's South Kensington, 22 October 1992, lot 251 (as Follower of Cornelis Jonson);
Jacqueline Castellani, Lady Killearn (1910-2015), Little Sodbury Manor, Somerset;
Thence by descent until 2020.
Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, was a writer, poet, historian and translator, credited as being the first woman known to have written and published an original play in English, a tragedy set in Syracuse, probably written in about 1604.