Portrait of Thomas Bulwer by Gerard van Soest
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Portrait of Thomas Bulwer

Gerard van Soest · 1654

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Rippon Hall, Hevingham, Norwich, by 1910 [according to Singh 1923, who visited Rippon Hall on July 29, 1910]. Lever Galleries, London, by 1937 [according to a letter from Leggatt Brothers to Ilse Hecht dated October 3, 1977, in curatorial file]; sold to Leggatt Brothers, London, 1937 [according to the letter cited above]; sold to Reginald H. Leon, The White House, Denham, Buckinghamshire, 1937 as Portrait of John Bulwer [date according to the letter cited above; title according to a letter from Leggatt Brothers to Ilse Hecht dated October 25, 1977, in curatorial file]; his sale, Knight, Frank & Rutley, The White House, Denham, Buckinghamshire, May 9, 1961, lot 49 as Portrait of John Bulwer for £260 to Agnew & Sons [price and buyer according to annotated photocopy of the sale catalogue, in curatorial file]; Agnew Brothers, London; sold to the Art Institute, 1962.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Worcester, England, City Art Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings from 1642 to 1651, 1951, cat. 43.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, European Portraits 1600–1900 in the Art Institute of Chicago, July 8–September 11, 1978, cat. 5.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, The Art of the Edge: European Frames 1300–1900, October 19–December 14, 1986, with no. 60.

Literature

Published references

  • Frederick Duleep Singh, Portraits in Norfolk Houses, Edmund Ferrer, ed., vol. 2 (Norwich, England, 1928), pp. 239–40.
  • John Maxon, “Three Baroque Portraits,” Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 57, 1 (1963), pp. 4, 5, ill.
  • T. L., review of John Maxon, “Three baroque portraits,” in Emporium 138, 2 (1964), p. 96.
  • “Accessions of American and Canadian Museums,” Art Quarterly 26, 2 (1963), p. 253, ill.
  • John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 1970), pp. 260, 287, ill.; revised edition (London, 1977); reprinted (London, 1987).
  • Ilse Hecht, “Portrait of Thomas Bulwer,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 71, 5 (1977), pp. 2–5, fig. 1, cover ill.
  • Richard R. Brettell and Steven Starling, The Art of the Edge: European Frames 1300–1900, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1986), p. 105, under no. 60.
  • M. Therese Southgate, “Portrait of Thomas Bulwer,” Journal of the American Medical Association 295, 6 (2006), p. 595, cover ill.

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