Lot 220: ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE GELDORP

ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE GELDORP COLOGNE 1595 - 1665 LONDON PORTRAIT OF DUTTON GERARD, 3RD BARON GERARD (1613-1640), OF GERARD'S BROMLEY, STAFFORDSHIRE inscribed lower left: Lord Gerard of Bromley oil on canvas 218.5 by 136 cm.; 86 by 53 1/2 in.

Presumably by descent in the family of the sitter's wife to Anthony, 13th Earl of Westmorland, Apethorpe Hall, Nothamptonshire;
his sale, Christie's, London, 2nd June 1892, lot 104, as 'Mytens', sold together with a portrait of Lady Gerard of Bromley (bt. by Graves for 52 guineas);
Major Philip Gribble;
his sale, London, Christie's, 20th June 1975, lot 42, as 'D.Mytens' (bt. for 500 guineas);
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 11th June 1999, lot 10 (bt. for £18,000);
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 23rd November 2004, lot 5 (bt. by the present owner for £26,000)

The sitter was the son of Gilbert Gerard, 2nd Baron Gerard, of Gerard's Bromley in Staffordshire, and his wife Eleanor, daughter and heiress of Thomas Dutton of Dutton, Cheshire. He married Lady Mary Fane, 2nd daughter of Francis, 1st Earl of Westmorland, as his first wife, by whom he had a son, Charles, who was to succeed him.