Portrait of a Lady of the Wentworth Family (Probably Jane Cheyne)

Provenance

Probably Thomas Wentworth, Lord Raby, 1st Earl of Strafford of the second creation (d. 1737), Wentworth Castle. Barnsley, North Yorkshire, as part of the settlement of the Toddington estate inherited by his wife, Anne Johnson (d. 1754) [see William Loftie Rutton, Three Branches of the Family of Wentworth, London, 1891, p. 116 and Jones in Wolff et al., 2008, pp. 320, 323]; presumably by descent to Frederick William Thomas Vernon-Wentworth (d. 1885), Wen-tworth Castle, Barnsley, North Yorkshire, by 1866 [lent by him to London 1866]; by descent to Captain Bruce C. Vernon-Wentworth; sold, Christie’s, London, Nov. 13, 1919, no. 53, to Mr. Sulley, a dealer of Grosvenor Street [according to Ellis Waterhouse’s notation in copy of London 1866 at Getty Research Center]; Knoedler, London and New York, 1920 [letter from Knoedler dated Dec. 21, 1920 in Art Institute Archives]; sold to Kate S. Bucking-ham for £2,000, 1920; given to the AIC, 1920.

Portrait of a Lady of the Wentworth Family (Probably Jane Cheyne)

Hans Eworth

1563

Accession Number

93554

Medium

Oil on panel

Dimensions

110.6 × 79.5 cm (43 9/16 × 31 5/16 in.); Framed: 139.7 × 108 × 10.2 cm (55 × 42 1/2 × 4 in.)

Classification

oil on panel

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Kate S. Buckingham