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THE GALLERY'S SPECIALISM IN OLD MASTER PORTRAITURE LIES PARTICULARLY WITHIN THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES. HOWEVER WE HAVE ALSO SOLD WORKS FROM EARLIER AND LATER PERIODS. ORIGINALLY FOCUSSED ON BRITISH ... View Page
Notable sales
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A selection of paintings sold by The Weiss Gallery that now reside in important, international private collections. Examples of work by Frans Pourbus the Younger, Artemisia Gentileschi and Michaelina ... View Page
Publications
Publication: Nicolas Lanier (1588 - 1666) - A Portrait Revealed
The various essays in this book, which commences with a concise synopsis of Lanier's life by his biographer Michael Wilson, offer many differing and fascinating insights and interpretations of one of ... View Page
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French school, circa 1580 - 1585, Louise de Lorraine (1553 – 1601), Queen of France, 1580 - 1585
The size of this bijou portrait is in keeping with the Valois court’s interest in smaller, refined, portrait drawings and paintings during the early modern period. This tradition – one that survived i... View Page
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Gillis Claeissens (1526 – 1605), Ferdinand de Bavière (1537 – c.1577)
Until recently, the identities of the artist and subject of this arresting portrait had been lost in time. However, the artist’s idiosyncratic handling and highly distinctive compositional style, allo... View Page
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An Anglo-Flemish artist, active in 1613, Nicholas Lanier (1588 - 1666)
Heralded by Sir Roy Strong as the most important discovery in early English portraiture in a century, this unique painting is probably a self-composed-portrait with various elements contributed by dif... View Page
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Friesland School, 1603, A three-year-old boy holding a kolf club and ball
This rare Dutch portrait of a young boy aged three is one of the earliest examples of a portrait incorporating a kolf club, used to hit a stuffed leather ball in the Dutch game of het kolven. The popu... View Page
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Cornelius Johnson (1593 – 1661), An unknown English courtier, Painted circa 1635
Although the Anglo-Dutch portraitist Cornelius Johnson is best known for his easel portraits, it was in miniature that his likenesses were truly able to shimmer. This portrait, painted on copper in a ... View Page
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Mary Beale (1633 – 1699), Lady Mary Sadleir, née Lorymer (d. 1706) [?]
The sitter of this particularly engaging portrait, painted by Britain’s first professional female artist Mary Beale, is thought to depict Mary Lorymer who in 1685, the date inscribed upon this paintin... View Page
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Attributed to Salomon Mesdach (d. before 1644), Four unknown siblings with their dog, Painted 1627
This endearing early seventeenth century portrait of four young children and their dog has survived in remarkable condition with much of the original glazes and brushwork intact. They form a compact g... View Page
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Katherine Read (1723 - 1778), Alexander Beatson (1759 - 1833), Painted circa 1776 - 1778
Painted when she was based in Madras towards the end of her life, these three bust-length portraits by the Scottish artist Katherine Read depict her three teenaged nephews. These, alongside the nearby... View Page
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Katherine Read (1723 - 1778), John Beatson (b. 1760), Painted circa 1776 - 1778
Painted when she was based in Madras towards the end of her life, these three bust-length portraits by the Scottish artist Katherine Read depict her three teenaged nephews. These, alongside the nearby... View Page
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Katherine Read (1723 - 1778), Robert Beatson (1758 - 1805), Painted circa 1776 - 1778
Painted when she was based in Madras towards the end of her life, these three bust-length portraits by the Scottish artist Katherine Read depict her three teenaged nephews. These, alongside the nearby... View Page
Johann Georg von Hamilton (1672 - 1737), Prince Adam Franz zu Schwarzenberg (1680-1732) on a Lippizzaner, performing a Capriole, Painted circa 1705 - 1715
Johann Georg von Hamilton (1672 - 1737) Prince Adam Franz zu Schwarzenberg (1680-1732) on a Lippizzaner, performing a Capriole, Painted circa 1705 - 1715 Oil on unlined canvas 102 3/8 x 106 ¼ in. (260... View Page
Michaelina Wautier (c.1617 - 1689), Martino Martini (1614 – 1661), an Italian Jesuit missionary in China , Painted 1654
Michaelina Wautier (c.1617 - 1689) Martino Martini (1614 – 1661), an Italian Jesuit missionary in China , Painted 1654 Oil on canvas 27 ¼ x 23 1/8 in. (69.5 x 59 cm.) View Page
Tefaf 2025
Welcome to our TEFAF 2025 Highlights
Welcome to our TEFAF 2025 Highlights: Stand 346 (15 - 20 March) The Weiss Gallery is proud to be exhibiting again at TEFAF Maastricht this month (15 - 20 March). Having participated in this world-reno... View Page
Fairs
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The Weiss Gallery has exhibited at many of the greatest international art fairs for over thirty years, the most notable being TEFAF in Maastricht every March, as well as London Art Week (Winter and Su... View Page
Notable sales
The Weiss Gallery
A selection of paintings sold by The Weiss Gallery to international institutions and museums, including works by Hans Holbein the Younger, William Larkin, and Frans Pourbus the Younger. View Page
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The Weiss Gallery
The Weiss Gallery is a leading specialist dealer in Tudor, Stuart & Northern European old master portraiture. It was founded by Mark Weiss in 1985 with a focus on buying and selling the finest Norther... View Page
Press
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Recent news and events relating to The Weiss Gallery including exhibitions, publications and recent acquisitions, as well as news clippings, stories, and interviews featuring The Weiss Gallery. To inc... View Page
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Jan Anthonisz. van Ravesteyn (c.1572 - 1657), Rombout Hogerbeets (1561 – 1625), Grand Pensionary of Leiden and Justice of the Hoge Raad
The assertive gaze of Rombout Hogerbeets (1561 – 1625), here shown as a grandee of the Dutch legal profession, indicates his renowned strength of mind and character as one of the most successful diplo... View Page
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News & Press
A Selection of News Clippings, Stories, and Interviews featuring The Weiss Gallery, as well as news about our recent acquisitions, publications and exhibitions View Page
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News & Press
A Selection of News Clippings, Stories, and Interviews featuring The Weiss Gallery, as well as news about our recent acquisitions, publications and exhibitions View Page
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News & Press
A Selection of News Clippings, Stories, and Interviews featuring The Weiss Gallery, as well as news about our recent acquisitions, publications and exhibitions View Page
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News & Press
A Selection of News Clippings, Stories, and Interviews featuring The Weiss Gallery, as well as news about our recent acquisitions, publications and exhibitions View Page
Press
News & Press
A Selection of News Clippings, Stories, and Interviews featuring The Weiss Gallery, as well as news about our recent acquisitions, publications and exhibitions View Page
Press
News & Press
A Selection of News Clippings, Stories, and Interviews featuring The Weiss Gallery, as well as news about our recent acquisitions, publications and exhibitions View Page
Publications
Publication: Facing History - Northern European Portraiture: 1550 - 1735
This is the nineteenth catalogue that I have produced since my gallery was founded in 1985, and it is the first where I have left virtually all the research and editorial to my very talented team &nda... View Page
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Publication: Cornelius Johnson - Painter to King & Country
This catalogue was published to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the opening of The Weiss Gallery in London with a special exhibition, ‘Cornelius Johnson: Painter to King & Country’, ... View Page
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Publication: Tudor and Stuart Portraits - From the Collections of the English Nobility and Their Great Country Houses
The catalyst for this catalogue was the unrepeatable opportunity to acquire the majority of the most important early British portraits from the contents sale of Cowdray Park held by Christie's in 2010... View Page
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Attributed to William Peake (c. 1580 – 1639), Three children, possibly James (1607 – 1651), later 7th Earl of Derby; Robert (d. 1632) and Anne Stanley, later Countess of Ancram (d. 1657)
Two brothers dressed in regal purple stand astride their young sister, who wears a fashionable red and white dress replete with farthingale hooped petticoat. She's bearing fruit - cherries and an uptu... View Page
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Frans Pourbus the Younger (1569 – 1622), Henri IV of France (1553 – 1610)
Painted in the year that he was assassinated, this portrait shows Henri IV (1553 – 1610), the first Bourbon monarch of France, as a seasoned, authoritative head of state. His court portrait painter, t... View Page
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Frans Pourbus the Younger (1569 – 1622), Louis XIII of France (1601 – 1643), Painted circa 1620 – 1621
This is the last known portrait by Pourbus of Louis XIII, and indeed likely one of the very last portraits that the artist painted before his death in 1622. It depicts the king aged about 19 - 20 year... View Page
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Nicolas de Largillierre (1656 - 1746), Élisabeth-Charlotte d'Orléans, Mademoiselle de Chartres, Painted circa 1680s
Presented in three-quarter length, the young sitter in our portrait lifts a bunch of grapes from a basket as she stares cheerfully at the viewer. The setting and her billowing Arcadian dress, accented... View Page
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Master of the Shafto Portraits (fl. 1620 – 1630), A 3-year-old girl from the Shafto family
Whilst fitting of the Jacobean age, this extremely charming full-length portrait of a young girl dates to the early years of Charles I’s reign. Associated with a group of distinctive portraits by an a... View Page
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Marcus Gheeraerts II (1561 - 1635), An unknown English noblewoman, possibly a member of the Strode family, Painted circa 1615
The artist of this sumptuous, exceptionally well-persevered portrait, Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, is rightly regarded today as one of the most important portrait painters working in oils for both t... View Page
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Robert Peake (c.1551 – 1619), An unknown noble boy, possibly a member of the Harlakenden family, Painted circa 1605
A rosy-cheeked young boy, with a shock of blond hair and stark blue eyes, stands before his viewer within a plain oaked interior. He wears a resplendent embroidered white dress, complete with a matchi... View Page
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Cornelius Johnson (1593 - 1661), Edwin Rich (c. 1594 - 1675) of Lincoln’s Inn and Mulbarton
Born in Thetford and raised in Norwich, Edwin Rich, the subject of this fine portrait by Cornelius Johnson, was educated at Cambridge and studied law at Lincoln’s Inn. Latterly he became an MP for Fow... View Page
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Cornelius Johnson (1593 – 1661), Dudley North, 4th Baron North (1602 – 1677), Painted 1627
This exceptionally lifelike portrait by the Anglo-Dutch court portraitist Cornelius Johnson depicts the English courtier, Dudley North, 4th Lord North and, until it was acquired recently, it had unbro... View Page
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Cornelius Johnson (1593 – 1661), An unknown noblewoman
This elegant portrait is an early example of the artist’s work when he mainly painted on panel. Johnson’s first signed pieces date from 1619, and by 1624 his assured, carefully modelled portraits were... View Page
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Daniel Mytens (1590 – 1647), Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Bt. (c.1544 – 1625), Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Painted circa 1624
Dressed in the distinctive scarlet robes of a Lord Chief Justice of England, Sir Henry Hobart sits for his last portrait, which, along with another version kept at his family seat, Blickling Hall [Fig... View Page
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Dirck Dircksz. van Santvoort (1610 – 1680), Dirck Frederiksz. van Alewijn (1644 – 1687), Painted circa 1646
An immaculately dressed young boy, likely no more than three years old, here commands an empty, tiled room with a riding crop and his pet deerhound. The toddling Dirck Alewijn has been deliberately, a... View Page
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Nicolaes Eliasz. Pickenoy (1588 – 1650/56), Frederik Dircksz. van Alewijn (1603 – 1665), Painted circa 1632 - 1637
This beautifully preserved and astonishingly life-like portrait depicts the wealthy Amsterdam councillor, Frederik Dircksz. van Alewijn (1603 – 1665). Comparison with another, later portrait, which cl... View Page
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Nicolaes Eliasz. Pickenoy (c.1588 – c.1650), Dirck Jansz. Sweelinck (1591 – 1652), organist of the Oude Kerk
The subject of this animated portrait can be confidently identified as the Amsterdam-based organist Dirck Jansz. Sweelinck on the basis of the age and date inscribed upon the portrait, which correspon... View Page
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Mary Beale (1633 – 1699), Gulielmus Forster (b. 1675)
Painted in 1683, this charming portrait of a young boy, who is dressed in a richly coloured arcadian costume, epitomises how its artist, Britain’s first professional female portraitist Mary Beale, ear... View Page
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Paul van Somer (c.1577 – 1622), Sir Rowland Cotton (1581 – 1634) of Alkington Hall, Whitechurch, and Bellaport Hall, Shropshire, Painted 1618
Remarkably, the splendid costume in which the sitter is so meticulously depicted, has survived the centuries, and today is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He is wearing on... View Page
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Adriaen Hanneman (1603 – 1671), An unknown Dutch officer, Painted 1656
This characterful portrait of an unknown officer in Dutch armour was painted in 1656, a rare example of the artist’s signed work of the period. The sitter’s resplendent curls and gathered collar revea... View Page
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Pierre Delorme (c.1716 – 1776), after Louis Tocqué (1696 – 1772), Louis-Philippe-Joseph II (1747 - 1793), as duke of Chartres, later duke of Orléans, and latterly known as ‘Philippe Égalité’, Probably painted at the château of Saint-Cloud circa 1755 – 175
The exquisitely attired subject of this grand full-length portrait, not yet ten years old, is Louis-Philippe-Joseph II (1747 - 1793), a principal figure within the Orléans branch of the French royal f... View Page
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George Knapton (1698 - 1778), A pair of Unknown English Siblings, Painted circa 1745 - 1750
Smooth skinned and bright eyed, with suitably rosy cheeks and endearing smiles, the young siblings portrayed in this charming pair of portraits are the picture of health. Shown in separate canvases, b... View Page

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