Lancelot Bostock
after Marcus Geeraerts, the elder, Netherlandish, 1520 - 1590
about 1585
Oil on panel
Overall: 38 1/4 × 29 5/8 in. (97.2 × 75.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Alice and M. R. Schweitzer
P.964.206
Geography
Place Made: Netherlands, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Nazi-Era Provenance Research
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Label on reverse: GODFREY INV. 1606 SALE JUNE 1953 / HULME A/C / ARTIST GHEERAERTS / SUBJECT PORTRAIT OF L. BOSTOCK; label, on reverse: [describes sitter]
Exhibition History
Churchill P. Lathrop at Dartmouth 1928-1978, Strauss and Barrows Galleries, Barrows Windows, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 20-November 26, 1978.
Director's Choice, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 10-July 10, 1966.
Portraits at Dartmouth, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 10-April 16, 1978.
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 20-December 1, 1972.
The Renaissance: Forms, Reforms and Revolutions, Barrows-Strauss Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 9-September 3, 1982.
Publication History
Larouse Encyclopedia of Renaissance and Baroque Art, p.173
BULLETIN 1, Dartmouth College, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, January 1966, illus.
Arthur R. Blumenthal, Portraits at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1978, p. 17, no. 5 ill.
Provenance
Possibly an English private collection (Godfrey Collection, no. 1606); London auction house, 1953; sold to [Marthe] Alice (1915-2004) and M. R. [Meyer (Mac) R.] Schweitzer (1911-2006), New York, 1953; given to present collection, December 1964.
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