Auction: European Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2532BLocation: BostonDate / Time: January 08, 2011 10:00AM
Description:
American School, 19th/20th Century
After Sir Anthony van Dyke (Flemish, 1599-1641),Charles I with M. de St Antoine (1633)
Signed, dated, and inscribed "Chas. A. Desh/1914/Van Dyke."
Oil on canvas, 44 x 35 in. (112.0 x 89.0 cm),framed.
Condition: Tear within an area of paint loss and abrasion u.l. corner, scattered minor paint losses, mild canvas deformation in the corners.
N.B. Genealogical records list a Charles A. Desh who died October 9, 1918, in Pennsylvania. (www.distantcousin.com/Obits/.) The original portrait by Anthony Van Dyke is in The Royal Collection in England.
Estimate $2,000-3,000