Lot 148: Carel van Savoy (Antwerp 1621-1665 Amsterdam)

Carel van Savoy (Antwerp 1621-1665 Amsterdam) Portrait of a boy, half-length, in a brown jacket and red mantle, holding a plumed hat, in a landscape oil on canvas 26¼ x 21¼ in. (66.8 x 54 cm.)

66.8 x 54 cm.

Catalogue of Pictures in Petworth House, Sussex, London, 1856, p. 14, no. 119, as 'Murillo, Head of a Boy'. C.H. Collins Baker, Catalogue of the Petworth Collection of pictures in the possession of Lord Leconfield, London, 1920, p. 102, no. 119, as 'Rembrandt School'. W. Sumowski, Gemälde Der Rembrandt-Schüler, Landau, 1983, IV, pp. 2538 and 2548, no. 1697a, illustrated.

George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837), Petworth House, Sussex, and by descent.

Sumowski (loc. cit.) dates this striking portrait of a young boy to the mid 1650s and compares it with van Savoy's portrait, painted in 1655, of Jan Jansz. de Doot, a work now in the Academisch Historisch Museum, Leiden.