Attributed to Paul van Somer
Provenance
(Likely) By descent within the Lane family, Glendon Hall, Kettering,
Northamptonshire;1 by 1758, when the property was acquired by
Sir John Booth (d. 1782), Glendon Hall, Kettering; thence by descent to
Beatrice Augusta de Capell Booth (1861 - 1952), Glendon Hall, Kettering;2 to
Phyllis Helen Gompertz, née Booth (d.1961), Glendon Hall, Kettering; her sale
Christie’s, London, 22 May 1953, lot 87 (as ‘Van Somer, Portrait of the Countess
of Pembroke when a young girl’), £31.10; bt. by
Leadbealei Schmeilzer;
antique trade, New York state; where acquired by
private collection, New York state.
Literature
(Probably) Anon., The Mansions of England, or Picturesque Delineations of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen, London 1847, Vol. 1, FF 2 (as ‘A full-length portrait of the Countess of Pembroke, Vandyck’).
(Probably) A. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, London 1854, Vol. III, p. 462 (as ‘VANDYCK – the Countess of Pembroke’).