Lot 8: ATTRIBUTED TO HUGO VAN DER GOES - (GHENT C. 1440-1482 RODE KLOOSTER, NEAR

ATTRIBUTED TO HUGO VAN DER GOES
(GHENT C. 1440-1482 RODE KLOOSTER, NEAR
BRUSSELS)
The Virgin and Child with Saints Thomas, John the Baptist,
Jerome and Louis
oil on panel 43 5/8 x 49 1/4 in. (110.8 x 125.2 cm.)

PROVENANCE:
with William Sykes (c. 1659-1724), London, where acquired before 1724 for £200 by
Henrietta Louisa Fermor, Countess of Pomfret (d. 1761), Easton Neston,
Northamptonshire, and by inheritance to her husband
Thomas Fermor, 2nd Baron Leominster, First Earl of Pomfret (1698-1753), Easton
Neston, Northamptonshire; his sale (†), 1753, day 2, lot 53 (80 gns. to Horace
Walpole).1
Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717-1797), Strawberry Hill, and by descent;
his sale, George Robins, Strawberry Hill, 18 May 1842, lot 52 (170 gns. to Beven, for
John Dent).
John Dent, Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, and by descent in the family until 1977.
with Edward Speelman Ltd, London, from whom acquired by the present owner in 1986.