Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Sir Uvedale Price, 1^st Bt (1747–1829), Foxley House, Herefordshire, c. 1793;

His son Sir Robert Price, 2^nd Bt (1786–1857) (a partly effaced hand-written label affixed to the reverse names him and identifies the sitter as Thomas Parr);

Hugh Andrew Johnston Munro of Novar (1797–1864), 6 Hamilton Place, London;

His posthumous sale, London, Christie’s, 1 June 1878, lot 94 (Portrait of Old Parr, said to have been painted by Rubens when ambassador at the English Court), for 180 Guineas, to Sedelmeyer;¹

Maurice Kann (1839–1906), Paris, until 1908;

With Kurt Walter Bachstitz (1882–1949), Berlin & New York, 1929–1931 (bears Bachstitz Berlin seal on the reverse);

From whom acquired by the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, 1931;

By whom deaccessioned and sold, New York, Replica Shoes ’s, 15 January 1993, lot 12 (as Follower of Sir Peter Paul Rubens);

With Galleria Luigi Caretto, Turin;

From whom acquired by the father of the present owners.

London, British Institution, Catalogue of Pictures by Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch and French Masters, May 1837, no. 87 (lent by Sir Robert Price);

London, British Institution, Portraits of Illustrious and Eminent Persons in History, Literature and Art, June 1846, no. 68 (lent by Sir Robert Price);

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Loan Exhibition of Forty-Three Paintings by Rubens and Twenty-Five paintings by Van Dyck, 19 November – 22 December 1946, no. 14;

Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, 5 February – 8 March 1948, no. 14;

Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi Art Foundation, The Art Museum of South Texas, 3–29 March 1961.

J. Alland and L.H. Rees, The Hereford Guide: Containing a Concise History of the City of Hereford, Gloucester 1806, p. 127 (as Rubens);

J. Dugdale, The New British Traveller: Or, Modern Panorama of England and Wales, London 1819, vol. II, p. 592;

W.N. Sainsbury, Original unpublished papers illustrative of the life of Sir Peter Paul Rubens, as an artist and a diplomatist, London 1859, p. 138;

W. Frost and H. Reeve, Catalogue of the paintings, water-colour drawings and prints in the collection of the late Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro, esq., of Novar, London 1865, p. 44, no. 172 (as Rubens);

M. Rooses, L’Œuvre de P.P. Rubens. Histoire et description de ses tableaux et dessins, Antwerp 1886–92, vol. IV, p. 230, no. 1017 (as Rubens);

A. Graves, A century of loan exhibitions (1813-1912), London 1914, vol. III, pp. 1162-63, no. 68 (as Rubens);

T.S[eccombe], in G. Smith et al, The Dictionary of National Biography, (DNB) Oxford 1917, vol. XV, p. 365;

The Burlington Magazine, XXXIX, December 1921, p. IV (advertisement, as Rubens);

H. Rosenbaum, Der junge Van Dyck (1615–21), Munich 1928, pp. 6–7;

Art News, vol. 29, 29 February 1931, p. 3, reproduced;

International Studio, H.J. Whigham (ed.), XCVIII, April 1931, p. 52;

Art Digest, vol. 5, 15 May 1931, p. 7, reproduced;

Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City 1933, reproduced p. 30 (as Rubens);

The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, Kansas City 1940, p. 167, reproduced p. 61;

Seventh Anniversary Exhibition of German, Flemish and Dutch Painting, Kansas City 1940–41, pp. 61 and 167, reproduced;

W.R. Valentiner, Loan Exhibition of Forty-Three Paintings by Rubens and Twenty-Five paintings by Van Dyck, exh. cat., Los Angeles 1946, no. 20;

Art News, vol. 45, December 1946, p. 25, reproduced;

J.-A. Goris and J.S. Held, Rubens in America, Antwerp 1947, no. 12, reproduced pl. 25;

William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, catalogue, Kansas City 1949, p. 77, reproduced;

L. Van Puyvelde, Rubens (Les peintres flamands du XVIIe siècle), Paris and Brussels 1952, p. 152 (as Rubens);

E. Larsen, P.P. Rubens. With a Complete Catalogue of his Works in America, Antwerp 1952, pp. 214–215, no. 24 (as Rubens, c. 1612-1614);

M. Jaffé, ‘The Flemish and Dutch Schools’, in Apollo, XCVI, 1972, pp. 504–06 (as Rubens, c. 1620);

R.E. Taggart and G.L. McKenna (eds), Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Replica Handbags s Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City 1973, vol. I, pp. 124–25, 257 (as Rubens, c. 1620);

J.D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America, New York 1979, p. 244;

A. Davies, Dictionary of British Portraiture. I. The Middle Ages to the Early Georgians. Historical Figures Born Before 1700, London 1979, p. 106 (as Rubens, Portrait of Thomas Parr [? 1483–1635] Centenarian);

E. Larsen, L’Opera Completa di Van Dyck, Milan 1980, vol. II, A51 (as Rubens);

D. Bodart, Rubens, Milan 1985, p. 190, no. 727 (as Rubens, Ritratto di Thomas Parr);

N. Gritsay, in N. Gritsay & N. Babina, State Hermitage Museum Catalogue. Seventeenth- and Eighteenth Century Flemish Painting, Saint Petersburg 2008, p. 65, under no. 99 (where wrongly noted as on canvas);

K. van der Stighelen, in Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, part XIX: Portraits, London and Turnhout 2021, vol. III, pp. 140-144, no. 178, reproduced in colour fig. 51 (as Rubens, circa 1610–15).

ENGRAVED

George Powle (active 1764–1771), engraving (drypoint), 134 x 110 mm., c. 1770;

George Powle as in the collection of Uvedale Price;

George Powle, 187 x 147 mm, ditto;

George Powle, engraving (drypoint?), 148 x 128 mm., ditto;

George Powle, engraving (drypoint?), 159 x 124 mm., ditto;

Jean Condé (1765–1794), engraving (drypoint?) 202 x 125 mm., 1793, printed in European Museum, XXIII, 1, April 1793, pp. 242–3;

Robert Page, engraving, stipple and crayon manner, 205 x 137 mm., from the series Fifty Wonderful Portraits, London 1821.