Lot 20: Bernard van Orley (Brussels c. 1488-1541)

Bernard van Orley (Brussels c. 1488-1541) The Holy Women and Saint John inscribed 'OQVA TRISTIS MATER MARIA LO... OQV[A] AFFLEC EVIT ILLA' (lower centre, on the hem of the Virgin's dress) oil on panel 42 5/8 x 35 1/8 in. (108.3 x 89.2 cm.)

London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Flemish and Belgian Art, 1300-1900, 8 January-5 March 1927, no. 221. Newcastle, Liverpool, Swansea and elsewhere, circulating exhibition organised by the Art Exhibitions Bureau, Old Masters from the Cook Collection (Group VII), February 1950-June 1951, no. 21. London, Agnew's, Master Paintings, June-July 1977, no. 32.

Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures at Doughty House, Richmond (Belonging to Sir Frederick Cook, Bart., Visconde de Monserrate), London, 1907, p. 10, no. 57, as hanging in the First Gallery. M.J. Friedländer, 'Bernaert van Orley, III: Orleys Tätigkeit zwischen 1521 und 1525', Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen Kunstsammlungen, XXX, 1909, p. 106-7, 'eine tüchtige, gut erhaltene und sehr charakteristische Leistung, bald nach 1521 dem Stile nach entstanden'. Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures at Doughty House, Richmond (Belonging to Sir Frederick Cook, Bart., Visconde de Monserrate), London, 1914, p. 10, no. 57, again as hanging in the First Gallery. M.W. Brockwell, A Catalogue of Paintings at Doughty House, Richmond and Elsewhere in the collection of Sir Frederick Cook Bt., III: Dutch and Flemish Schools, London, 1915, no. 470, again as hanging in the First Gallery. M.J. Friedländer, Die Altniederländische Malerei, VIII: Jan Gossaert, Bernart van Orley, Berlin, 1930, p. 171, no. 114, 'um 1522'. M.W. Brockwel, Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures at Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey in the Collection of Sir Herbert Cook, Bart., London, 1932, p. 17, no. 470, again as hanging in the First Gallery. Pictures at Hovingham Hall, 1965, p. 26. M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, VIII: Jan Gossaert and Bernart van Orley, Leyden and Brussels, 1972, pp. 72 and 106, no. 114, pl. 106, 'about 1522'.

Sir Francis Cook, 1st Bt., Visconde de Monserrate (1817-1901), Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey, by 1901, and thence by descent to Sir Francis Cook, 4th Bt. (1907-1978), until sold in July 1954 to F.A. Drey, for £750. with Agnew's, London, by 1955, when acquired by Sir Marcus Worsley, 5th Bt., J.P., D.L. (1925-2012) of Hovingham Hall, purchased with funds from the sale of the Hovingham Giambologna, Samson Slaying the Philistine, to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1954, and by descent to the present owner.