Portrait of Mrs. Thomas Carey (d. 1678), later Lady Herbert, full-length, in a white satin dress, with gold embroidery, by a column with a draped curtain, a park landscape beyond

Details

Circle of Sir Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp 1599-1641 London)
Portrait of Mrs. Thomas Carey (d. 1678), later Lady Herbert, full-length, in a white satin dress, with gold embroidery, by a column with a draped curtain, a park landscape beyond
oil on canvas
85½ x 47¼ in. (217.3 x 120 cm.)

Provenance

Lord Hastings, Melton Constable, Norfolk.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 21 November 1986, lot 72.
Private collection, Geneva.

Literature

E. Larsen, The Paintings of Anthony van Dyck, Freren, 1988, II, p. 344, no. 879, pl. 24.
O. Millar, in S.J. Barnes et al, Van Dyck, A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, New Haven and London, 2004, p. 532, under IV.132.

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Lot Essay

The sitter was the daughter and sole heir of Sir Thomas Smith, Master of Requests. She married first Thomas Carey (1612-1649), second son of Robert, 1st Earl of Monmouth, and secondly, in September 1639, Sir Edward Herbert (d. 1658), who served as Attorney-General under King Charles I. The prime version of the present picture is at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire.

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