Whereabouts of paintings 1933–1945

List of works with incomplete provenance from 1933–1945

In the light of concern that some works of art now in public collections may have been improperly acquired during the period 1933–1945, without restitution having been made, the National Gallery has paid particular attention to the whereabouts of its paintings during those years.

Part of the National Gallery's normal work is to investigate the whereabouts of its paintings from the time they were painted until the time they entered the Gallery's collection.

This may reveal material of great historical interest concerning, for example, the identity of the painter, the purpose for which the picture was painted, and changing patterns of collecting taste.

In March 1999, with the cooperation of the Gallery, The Art Newspaper published an initial list of paintings in the Gallery with incomplete provenance information for the period 1933–1945. Since then the Gallery's research has continued and the list has been updated from time to time and made available to any member of the public on request.

As at 17 December 2018, the Gallery had not received any claims asserting on behalf of another or others that any of the paintings on its list was looted or otherwise improperly acquired, nor was it aware of any such claim in process. 
If further information is needed in respect of any particular painting, please in the first instance email information@nationalgallery.org.uk

*Early provenances for pictures are not given. NG numbers are inventory numbers. (D) signifies dealer.

List of Works

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

ALIGNY, THÉODORE CARUELLE D’, possibly by

'Ruined Column in the Baths of Caracalla, Rome'

Presented by the Lishawa family, 2018

NG 6673

Provenance
Galerie de la Scala, Paris; {1} purchased by John Lishawa; gift to the National Gallery, 2018.

Questions 1933-45
{1} Provenance prior to appearance at the Galerie de la Scala; date and method of acquisition by the Galerie de la Scala.

ANDREA DI BUONAIUTO (attributed)

'Virgin and Child with Ten Saints'

1940 presented to NG by Mrs R.F.P. Blennerhassett

NG5115

Provenance

Possibly acquired in Rome by Mr.F.W.H. Myers (d.1902) *

Mrs Frederic W.H. Myers, until 1937

Passed to her daughter, Mrs R.F.P. Blennerhassett;

Questions 1933-1945

Confirmation of date of acquisition by F.W.H. Myers

ANONYMOUS UMBRIAN OR TUSCAN MASTER

'The Virgin and Child'

Bought 1998

NG 6572

Provenance

Ruef, Munich, 14/15 December 1989*

Private collection

bought by NG 1998

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance prior to 1989

ASSERETO, GIOACCHINO

'The Angel appears to Hagar and Ishmael'

Presented by the Trustees of Sir Denis Mahon's Charitable Trust through the Art Fund, 2013

NG6621

Provenance

Dr Alfred Scharf before 1942; placed on consignment by him with Thomas Agnew and Sons Ltd. (D), London, in 1942; acquired by Denis Mahon from Robert Frank, London, in 1950.

Questions

Provenance before 1942? Acquisition date by Alfred Scharf?

AST, BALTHASAR VAN DER

'Flowers in a Vase with Shells and Insects'

Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the National Gallery, 2003

NG6593

Provenance

Percy B. Meyer, London
Private collection, on loan to the National Gallery between 1994 and 2002
Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the National Gallery, 2003

Questions 1933-1945

Date of acquisition by Percy B. Meyer?
Provenance of painting prior to entering Meyer’s collection?

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BALKE, PEDER

'The Tempest'

Presented by Danny and Gry Katz, 2010

NG6614

Provenance

Private collection, Norway; auction, Oslo 2007

Acquired there by Danny Katz, London

Presented to the National Gallery by Danny and Gry Kats, 2010

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance prior to 2007

BATONI

'Portrait of John Scott(?)'

Bequeathed to NG 1960 by Mrs E.M.E. Commeline

NG6308

Provenance

Col. Charles Ernest Commeline (1856–1928), Corps of Royal Engineers*
Passed on his death to his second wife, Mrs Ethel Maud Eliza Commeline (1881–1959), of The Orchard House, Alveston (near Bristol)

Questions 1933-1945

Documentary confirmation of ownership and date of acquisition by Col. Commeline.

BATONI

'Time orders Old Age to destroy Beauty'

Bought by NG from Agnew's, London, 1961

NG6316

Provenance

Christie's. London, 20 March 1959;

Agnew's (D), London

From whom purchased by NG, 1961

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance prior to 1959.

BAYEU

'St James visited by the Virgin'

Purchased by NG, 1985

NG6501

Provenance

Private collection, Mexico; *

Christie's, New York, 18 January 1984 when bought by, or for, Spencer Samuels (D)

by whom a share sold to Trafalgar Galleries (D), London, and another;

purchased by NG, 1985

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance before 1984. E.g. when bought or sold by private collector

BELLINI, GENTILE

'Cardinal Bessarion with Two Members of the Scuola della Caritá in prayer with the Bessarion Reliquary'

Bought with the support of a number of gifts in wills, 2002

NG 6590

Provenance

Scuola di S. Maria dei Battuti della Carità, Venice

Emperor Francis I of Austria, by 1821

August Lederer, Vienna (by 1928)

Inherited by Erich Lederer (1896-1985)

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, by 1950 (inv. n. 9101)

Restituted to the Heirs of Erich Lederer in 2001

Sold, Christie’s, London, 12 December 2001

Acquired with a generous legacy, 2002   

BEUCKELAER, JOACHIM

'The Four Elements'

Acquired in 2001 with a grant from the American Friends

NG 6585-6588

Provenance

By 1884, in the Palazzo Panciatichi, Florence;

Panciatichi sale, Florence, 11 April 1902, lot 165;

Later in the collection at Brussels of Elvire Marthe Campens, widow of the dealer Modeste Langevelt (d. 1914);

Seen in 1942 at 167 rue de la Loi, Brussels, which had belonged to Jeanne Quairier (d. 1930), widow of General Theodule Goffinet and which in 1942 belonged to their son Robert Goffinet (1885 - 1945);

His brother Louis Goffinet, who moved them to his chateau at Hyon, near Mons;

Louis Goffinet's widow, who died in 1979;

Sold by her heirs in or about 1982 to a Belgian collector, who lent them to the Ghent Museum voor Schone Kunsten, where they were displayed between 1986 and 2000;

Sold at Christie's, London, 13 December 2000, lot 25, to the dealer Robert Noortman, Maastricht, from whom they were purchased in 2001.

Questions 1933-1945

Who bought them at the sale in 1902?

Date of acquisition by General Théodule Goffinet or Jeanne Quairier, and from whom acquired.

BIDAULD, JEAN JOSEPH XAVIER

'A View of Tivoli Cascade'

Presented by the Lishawa family, 2018

NG6678

Provenance

Private collection, France; {1} purchased by John Lishawa; gift to the National Gallery, 2018.

Questions 1933-45

(1} Provenance prior to appearance in private collection; date and method of acquisition by private collection.

BLANCOUR

'Bowl of Flowers'

Bequeathed to the NG by Capt. Edward George Spencer-Churchill, 1964

NG6358

Provenance

Misses M.E. and C.M. Blencowe, UK;*

Their sale (as by 'Verbmeggen') at Sotheby's, London, 28 April 1954 to Captain Edward George Spencer-Churchill, Northwick Park, Gloucestershire;

Bequeathed to NG, 1964

Questions 1933-1945

Date of acquisition by the Misses Blencowe (and, if necessary, earlier provenance back to 1933).

BONINGTON

'La Ferté'

2012 Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the National Gallery
 
NG 6619

Provenance

In the collection of M. de Guirangaud*

In the collection of M. de Belleyme

In the collection of Jean Dieterie (d. 1971)

Sold by Jean Dieterie to the diplomat Tony Mayer (1902–1997)

With Galerie Jacques Dubourg, Paris, 1953

In the collection of Adolph Stein by 1985

His sale, Audap, Godeau, Solanet, Paris, 14 June 1991, lot 17, bought by the Leger Gallery, London

With Spink-Leger, London, in 2000 when sold for £135,000 to a private collector

Private collection, London

Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the National Gallery, 2012

Questions 1933–1945

Dates of transfer between private collections of De Guirangaud, De Belleyme, Jean Dieterie, Tony Mayer

Whereabouts 1933–1945

BOSCH

'Christ Mocked (The Crowning with Thorns)'

74 x 59cm.

Bought by NG from Galleria Sangiorgi (D), Rome, 1934

NG 4744

Provenance

Bought at Christie's, 4 July 1892 by Robert Thompson Crawshay, (d. 1940) who later settled in Rome;

probably sold by Crawshay in 1932 when his son settled in Paris*

exported from Italy in the winter of 1933-4;

bought from Galleria Sangiorgi (D), Rome, by the Gallery in 1934 after being exported to Lucerne where it was seen by Kenneth Clark.

Questions 1933-1945

Confirmation of date and place of sale?

Sold to Galleria Sangiorgia?

BOSSCHAERT

'Flowers in a Vase'

Bequeathed to NG by Edward Speelman (D) in 1994.

NG6549

Provenance

Switzerland, possibly shortly after Second World war; *

acquired from a Canadian family near Genoa in the 1960's or from a private collection near Zollikon, Switzerland around 1970/1972 by Kurt Meissner (D), Zurich, *

Edward Speelman (D), London; bequeathed by Mr. Speelman to NG, 1994

Questions 1933-1945

Whereabouts and provenance until post WWII?

Source for information about Switzerland?

Provenance between post 1945 and 1960's?

BOUCHER

'Landscape with a Watermill'

Bought by NG at Sotheby's 1965

NG 6374

Provenance

Willy Blumenthal, Paris;*

Forsyth Wickes, Newport, Mass;*

J. Mackower by 1954; his sale Sotheby's, London, 24 March 1965.*

Questions 1933-1945

Dates and details pre-Blumenthal

Dates and details of acquisition and disposal by Blumenthal

Dates and details between possession by Blumenthal and Wickes

Dates and details of acquisition and disposal by Wickes

Dates and details between disposal by Wickes and acquisition by Mackower

Details and date of acquisition by Mackower.

BOUDIN

'Brussels Harbour'

Bequeathed to the NG by Kenneth Levy 1958

NG6530

Provenance

Drouot auction, Paris, 17 June 1921;*

Marlborough Fine Art (D), London;*

Kenneth Levy, London, 1958;

Bequeathed to NG, 1990

Questions 1933-1945

Drouot sold to?

Provenance between Drouot auction and acquisition by Marlborough Fine Art?

Details and date of acquisition by Marlborough?

Date of Sale Marlborough to Levy?

BOULLOGNE

'Nessus and Dejanira'

Bequeathed to NG by Jeffery Daniels 1986.

NG6506

Provenance

Mr & Mrs Paul Ganz, USA, by 1972;*

Jeffery Daniels, London;

bequeathed to NG, 1986

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance prior to acquisition by Ganz

Details of acquisition by Ganz

BRUSSEL

'Flowers in a Vase'

Bequeathed by Sir Arthur Jackson to NG 1940

NG5174

Provenance

Rayner MacConnal (D), London;*

Sir Arthur Jackson, UK;*

bequeathed to NG, 1940

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance prior to MacConnal

Details and date of acquisition/disposal by MacConnal

Provenance between MacConnal and Jackson

Details and date of acquisiton by Jackson

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CALAME

'At Handeck'

Presented by Mr Asbørn Lunde through the American Friends of the National Gallery, 2016

NG 6660

Provenance

Sale of Alexandre Calame, Paris, 13-22 March 1865, no. 351
 
Collection of Hans Eduard Bühler (1893–1967)
 
Collection of Asbjørn Lunde, New York, by whom bought at auction in Zurich, 11 December 1997, lot 124

Questions 1933-1945

Date and source of purchase and sale by Hans Edaurd Bühler
 
Provenance prior to sale at Sotheby's, Zurich, December 1997

 

 CALAME

‘Chalets at Rigi’

Presented by Mr Asbjørn Lunde through the American Friends of the National Gallery in recognition of the directorship of Sir Nicholas Penny, 2020

NG 6688

Provenance

Maria Gillhausen, dealer in Munich, by July 1943;{1}[1] sold to Galerie Maria Almas-Dietrich for Hitler’s projected museum (Führermuseum) at Linz, July 1943;[2] probably Führerbau, Munich (no. 2930); [3] stored in the salt mine at Altaussee in Austria, from around 1944-5;[4] brought to the Central Collecting Point, Munich (no. 9683), 15 October 1945;[5] transferred to the State Premier of Bavaria, 31 August 1948; transported from Munich to Salzburg and then brought to a depot of the Austrian Federal Authority, 18 January 1952; ownership transferred to Austria for disposition, 22 July 1955; moved to the Kartause Mauerbach, Mauerbach, 1966;[6] on deposit at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (inv. 9734), from 1979; transferred to the Federal Association of Jewish Religious Communities in Austria, 31 October 1995;[7] purchased by Asbjørn Lunde [1927-2017] (Mauerbach: Items seized by the National Socialists to be sold for the benefit of the Victims of the Holocaust, Christie’s, Vienna, lot 317, as follower of Calame), 29-30 October 1996;[8] on long term loan to the National Gallery, 2011; gift to the National Gallery, 2020.

Notes

[1] Information from records of the Special Commission Linz, no. 2930 (A. Enderlein, M. Flacke and H. C. Löhr, ‘Datenblatt LI002939’, Datenbank ”Sammlung des Sonderauftrages Linz”, https://www.dhm.de/datenbank/linzdb/indexe.html, Berlin, 2008 (search for Single Object no. 2930 (accessed 22 September 2021)) and Munich Central Collecting Point (CPP) Property Card – Inventory BDA (Austria), no. 9683 (A. Enderlein and M. Flacke, Datenbank zum “Central Collecting Point München”, https://www.dhm.de/datenbank/ccp/dhm_ccp.php?seite=9, Berlin, 6 June 2009 (accessed 21 September 2021)).

[2] Information from Special Collection Linz records and Munich CPP Card, as in note 1.

 [3] Number 36 in Album XXVI of the photographic albums assembled for Hitler, this one dispatched from Dresden to Hitler on 3 November 1943: Alexandre Calame, Blick von einer Alm auf den Pilatus. B. Schwarz, Hitlers Museum. Die Fotoalben Gemäldegalerie Linz: Dokumente zum ‘Führermuseum’, Vienna 2004.

[4] Information from Munich CPP Card, as in note 1.

[5] Information from Munich CPP Card, as in note 1.

[6] Implied by the painting’s inclusion in the ‘Mauerbach Sale’, as in note 7.

[7] Implied by the painting’s inclusion in the ‘Mauerbach Sale’, as in note 7.

[8] For the ‘Mauerbach Sale’, see National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism, ‘The Mauerbach Auction” of 1996’, ArtDatabase,  https://www.kunstdatenbank.at/the-mauerbach-auction-of-1996 (accessed 13 May 2020); I. Seidl-Hohenveldern, ‘The Auction of the “Mauerbach Treasure”‘, International Journal of Cultural Property, vol. 6, issue 2 (July 1997), pp. 247–66.

Questions 1933-45

{1} Ownership before sale by Gillhausen in July 1943.

CAMPIN (workshop)

'Portrait of a Franciscan (?)'

Bought by the NG from Agnew's (D) London, 1966

NG6377

Provenance

Arthur Leonard Nicholson, London;*

Bonhams, 19 August 1965;*

Agnew's (D), London;

purchased by NG, 1966

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance prior to Nicholson

Details and date of acquisition/disposal by Nicholson

Nicholson sold through Bonham's 1965?

CAMPIN (workshop)

'The Virgin and Child in an Interior'

23 x 15cm.

Bought by the NG from Edward Speelman (D), London, 1987

NG6514

Provenance

Melanie von Habsburg-Lothringen, Schloss Seisenegg, Austria;*

Edward Speelman (D), London;*

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance prior to von Habsburg-Lothringen

Acquisition/disposal by ditto

Provenance between von Habsburg-Lothringen/Speelman

Acquisition/disposal

CARAVAGGIO

'Salome receives the Head of St John the Baptist'

Bought by the NG 1970 from Major A.E. Allnatt

NG6389

Provenance

Swiss private collection, 1959; * apparently sold by auction in Paris (possibly from a French private collection) in 1959;

Agnew's (D) and Rudolf Heineman, London;

Major A.E. Allnatt. London, 1961;

purchased by NG, 1970

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance prior to Swiss Private collection,

date of acquisition

LUDOVICO CARRACCI
'The Marriage of the Virgin'

Accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the National Gallery, 2003

NG6595

Provenance

Leonard Koetser (D), London*

Sale at Christie’s London, 1st of July 1955, lot 133 (as Van Haarlem)

Bought by Philip Pouncey and attributed by him to Ludovico Carracci, until 1966

On loan to the National Gallery since 1988

Accepted by H.M. Government in Lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the National Gallery, 2003

Questions 1933-1945

Whereabouts between 1933 and 1945

LUDOVICO CARRACCI

'The Agony in the Garden'

Presented by the Trustees of Sir Denis Mahon’s Charitable Trust through the Art Fund, 2013

NG6624

Provenance

Christie’s London, 20 March 1959, lot 34, where bought by Colnaghi*

From whom acquired by Sir Denis Mahon, 1960

Questions 1933-1945

Whereabouts between 1933 and 1945

CAVALLINO

'Christ driving the Traders from the Temple'

Presented to NG by Count Allessandro Contini-Bonacossi in 1935

NG4778

Provenance

Ettore Sestieri (D), Rome, 1921;

Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, by 1934;*

presented by him to NG, 1935

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance between Sestieri and Contini-Bonacossi

Date and details of acquisition by Contini-Bonacossi.

Cavallino, Bernardo

‘Saint Bartholomew’

Bought with the support of the American Friends of the National Gallery, 2023

NG6998

Provenance

Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 28 April 1903, lot 103;

where acquired by Farr (likely the London dealer John Dominique Defordt, a Belgian by birth who anglicised his name as John Dominic Farr).

Private collection, Netherlands, by 1988;

by whom anonymously sold at Sotheby’s, Amsterdam, 8 February 1988, lot 146;

where acquired by P. & D. Colnaghi, Ltd., New York and London;

from whom acquired by a private collection, New York, 1991;

from whom acquired by a private collection, New York, 1997;

by whom sold at Sotheby’s, New York, 26 January 2023, lot 8;
where purchased by the National Gallery.

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance between Farr 1903 and Dutch private collection 1988

CELS

'Tree Study'

Gift of Kate de Rothschild, 1999

NG 6578

Provenance

Christie's, South Kensington, 16 April, 1997

Mark Brady, New York

Kate de Rothschild, London

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance prior to 1997. (This and other Cels oil sketches are unrecorded before they appeared at auction as a single lot in 1997)

CHAMPAIGNE

'The Dream of St Joseph'

Bought by NG from Jacques Seligmann (D), 1957.

NG6276

Provenance

Auction, Paris, 22 May 1919 to Reginald Rives;

Auction, Paris, 24 December 1948;*

Jacques Seligmann (D), New York;

Purchased by NG, 1957

Questions 1933-1945

Confirm date and details of disposal by Rives

Provenance between Rives and auction of 1948

Details of vendor at auction 1948.

CIPPER (style)

'Head of a Man in Red' and 'Head of a Man in Blue'

Bequeathed to NG by M.W. Jacobson, 1944

NG5468-9

Provenance

Maurice Woolff Jacobson (D), Paris and London; *

bequeathed by Mr Jacobson to NG, 1944

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance prior to Jacobson

Details and date of acquisition by Jacobson

COORTE, ADRIAEN

‘Still Life with a Bowl of Strawberries, a Spray of Gooseberries, Asparagus and a Plum’

Gift from the collection of Willem Baron van Dedem, 2017

NG6664

Provenance

Possibly sale of the Samuel Archbutt collection, (Christie’s, London), 18 May 1833 (Lugt 13314), lot 25: ̒A. Coorte, 1703: Fruit and vegetables’. {1}

Private collection, France; {2} sold (Sotheby’s, Monaco), 22 June 1985, lot 46;
(David Koetser Gallery, Zurich), 1985.

Linda and Gerald Guterman, New York; by whom sold (Sotheby’s, New York), 14 January 1988, lot 7 (bought in).

Sale (Sotheby’s, New York), 16 May 1996, lot 120, bought in.

Private collection, New York, until 2006.

(Haboldt & Co., Paris), 2006-2007.

Willem Baron van Dedem [1929-2015]; gift from the collection of Willem Baron van Dedem to the National Gallery, 2017.

Questions 1933-45

{1} Provenance between Archbutt sale and private collection.
{2} Date and source of acquisition by private collection.

Notes

Quentin Buvelot, 'The still lifes of Adriaen Coorte (active c. 1683-1707)', exh. Mauritshuis, The Hague; Zwolle 2008, p. 110, no. 50.

COQUES (imitator)

'Portrait of a Woman'

Bequeathed to NG by Elizabeth Carstairs, 1952

NG6160

Provenance

Probably in the collection of Charles S. Carstairs (d. 1949), Paris who bequeathed his pictures to his wife Elizabeth *

Elizabeth Carstairs, London;

bequeathed to NG, 1952

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance prior to Carstairs

Date and details of acquisition by Carstairs

Additional information

Work has Hebrew inscription on reverse

CORNELIS VAN HAARLEM

'The Preaching of St John the Baptist'

Bought by NG from Edward Spelman (D), 1978

NG6443

Provenance

M.A. Mechen; *

Phillips, London, 14 March 1977*

Edward Speelman (D), London;

Purchased by NG, 1978

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance prior to Mechen

Details and date of acquisition by Mechen

Mechen sold through Phillips 1977?

COROT

'The Wagon ('Souvenir of Saintry')'

Presented to the NG by W.E. Brandt, H. A. Brandt, W. A. Brandt and A. M. Bleeker in memory of R.E. Brandt, 1963

NG 6340

Provenance

John Balli who's sale at

Georges Petit, Paris, 22 May 1913 (Lot 7)

Bought by Montaignac

Vagliano sale, Christie's, London, 15 July, 1955, (Lot 15)

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance between Montaignac 1913 and Vagliano 1955

COROT

'Dardagny, Morning'

Presented to the NG in memory of R.E. Brandt by members of his family, 1963

NG 6339

Provenance

Emile Duhousset by 1905;*

given in memory of Rudolph Ernst Brandt by members of his family in 1963.*

Questions 1933-1945

Date of disposal by Duhousset

Provenance between disposal by Duhousset and 1963.

Details and date of acquisition by Brandt family

COROT

'Peasants under the Trees at Dawn'

28 x 40cm.

Bought by the NG from Daber (D)), Paris, 1977

NG6439

Provenance

Tony Mayer, France, 1949;*

Daber (D), Paris;*

Purchased by NG, 1977

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance prior to Mayer

Details and dates of acquisition by Mayer

Confirm Mayer sold to Daber, and date

COROT

'The Oak in the Valley'

Presented to NG by Mrs Alice Bleecker, 1981

NG6466

Provenance

Monsieur Surville;*

Rudolph Ernst Brandt, London;*

Mrs Alice Bleecker;*

Presented to NG, 1981

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance prior to Surville

Details of acquisition and disposal by Surville

Ditto Brandt

Details of acquisition by Mrs Alice Bleecker.

COROT

'Landscape at Arleux-du-Nord'

Bequeathed to NG by Kenneth Levy, 1990

NG6531

Provenance

Alfred Robaut, Paris, by 1905;*

M. Verdier; *

Jacques Dubourg by early 1936, *

from whom bought by Arthur Tooth (D), London;

sold by them a few weeks later to Herbert Levy;

Kenneth Levy, London, 1936; bequeathed to NG, 1990

Questions 1933-1945

Details of disposal by Robaut

Provenance between 1905 and 1936

Details of acquisition/disposal by Verdier

Provenance between Verdier and Dubourg

Details of acquisition by Dubourg

COURBET

'Still life with Apples and a Pomegranate'

Bought by NG from Arthur Tooth (D), 1951

NG5983

Provenance

Latouche, before 1920s;*

Owned by Daber (D), Paris, 1949;*

Bought from Daber by Arthur Tooth (D), London;

Purchased by NG, 1951

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of disposal by Latouche

Provenance between Latouche 1920's and Daber 1949

Date and details of acquisition by Daber

COURBET

'Beach Scene'

Bequeathed to NG by Sir Robert Hart, 1971

NG6396

Provenance

Jacques Dubourg, Paris (D), from whom bought in 1952 by Roland-Browse & Delbanco (D),London;

Sold by Roland-Browse & Delbanco in 1952 to Colonel Pritchard;

Resold by Colonel Pritchard to Roland-Browse & Delbanco;

Sold again by that firm in 1952, this time to Sir Robert Hart, London;

Bequeathed to NG, 1971

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance prior to Jacques Dubourg

Details and date of acquisition by ditto

CRANACH

'Cupid complaining to Venus'

81 x 55cm.

Bought by the NG from E & A Silbermann (D), 1963

NG6344

Provenance

Sale of collector, Emil Goldschmidt of Frankfurt at Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, 27 April 1909. Recorded in an album of photographs of paintings in Hitler’s private collection. Understood to have been chosen by Mrs Patricia Lochridge Hartwell, an American war correspondent, in 1945 from premises in Germany controlled by American armed forces and taken by her to the USA.

Adolf Hitler (1889-1945);*

Mrs Hartwell, New York, by 1962;*

E. and A. Silbermann (D), NY;

purchased by NG, 1963

Questions 1933-1945

Confirm details and date of acquisition by Adolf Hitler

Confirm details and date of acquisition by Mrs Hartwell

CRESPI

'Saint Jerome in the Desert'

Bought by NG from Colnaghi's (D) 1963

NG6345

Provenance

Balboni (D), Rome from whom bought by *

Colnaghi's (D), London. 1963

Quesitons 1933-1945

Provenance prior to Balboni

Details and date of acquisition by Balboni;

CRETI, DONATO
'Artemisia drinking the Ashes of Mausolus'

Presented by the Trustees of Sir Denis Mahon's Charitable Trust through the Art Fund, 2013

NG6628

Provenance

The painting was acquired by Denis Mahon from Colnaghi, London in 1963

Question 1933-1945

Provenance of painting prior to Mahon’s acquisition in 1963?

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DAHL

'The Lower Falls of the Labrofoss'

Presented by Mr Asbjørn Lunde through the American Friends of the National Gallery, 2016

NG 6661

Provenance

Mr Bracebridge, London 1828
 
Omell Galleries, London, 1953
 
Blomqvist Auction, Oslo, Norway, 20 October 1997, lot 76, acquired there by Asbjørn Lunde
 
Questions 1933-1945
 
Date and source of acquisition by Omell Galleries, London

DEGAS

'After the Bath, Woman drying herself'

104 x 98 cm.

Bought by NG from Harry Walston, 1959

NG6295

Provenance

Degas auction, Paris, 11-3 December 1918; bought by *

Georges Viau, Paris; *

Viau auction, Paris, 11 December 1942 (Lot 74) ;*

Bought by Mme. Louis Viau

Lefevre (D), London;*

Harry Walston, UK, c1950;*

lent to Tate Gallery, 1950-1 and 1958;

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Lefevre

Confirm date of acquisition by Walston

DELACROIX

'Christ on the Cross'

Bought by NG from Daber (D), 1976

NG6433

Provenance

Baron Denys Cochin, Paris, 1910;

Jules Strauss sale, Paris*, George Petit, 15 Dec. 1932;

Bought by Henri Dubois;*

Daber (D), Paris; *

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance between 1910 and 1932

Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Strauss

Confirmation that Dubois bought from Petit, and date

Date of disposal by Dubois

Date of acquisition by Daber.

DENIS, S.

'Sunset in the Roman Campagna'

Bought by the NG from St. Just Fine Arts, London, 1996.

NG6562

Provenance

Private collector, France;*

Loudmer, Paris, 19 December 1994;

St Just Fine Arts, London;

Questions 1933-1945

Any provenance details required prior to 1994.

DETROY

'Time unveiling Truth'

Bought by NG at Christies, 1979

NG6454

Provenance

Samuel Howard, Perthshire;*

His sale, Christie's, London, 22 March 1935, when bought by

Fauteil;*

Dr E.I. Schapiro, by 1968;*

Christie's, London, 30 March 1979 (withdrawn);

Questions 1933-1945

Details of acquisition by Howard

Details of purchaser, 1935

Details of disposal by Fauteil

Provenance between ownership by Fauteil and acquisition by Schapiro

DOLCI

'The Adoration of the Kings'

117 x 92 cm.

Bought by NG from Gooden & Fox (D), 1991.

NG6523

Provenance

Walmesley, UK, 1889;

private collection, Buenos Aires;*

Sotheby's. NY, 2 June 1989;

Hazlitt. Gooden & Fox (D), London;

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance between 1889 and 1989

Details of private collector and acquisition.

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FABRE

'Italian Landscape'

Given to the NG by Mrs Linda Murray in memory of her husband, through the NACF, 1996.

NG6564

Provenance

With S. Wells, Richmond, Yorks, in 1902;*

Sold by Charles F. Thorpe, Knaresborough, Yorks, Christie's, London, 9 May 1958; where bought by Professor Peter and Mrs. Linda Murray

Questions 1933-1945

Details of sale by Wells

Provenance between 1902-1958

Details of acquisition by Charles F. Thorpe

FRENCH

'The Sky at Sunrise'

Presented by the Lishawa family, 2018

NG6676

Provenance

Nicolas Schwed, 2012; {1} purchased by John Lishawa; gift to the National Gallery, 2018.

Questions 1933-45

{1} Provenance prior to 2012; date and method of acquisition by Nicolas Schwed.

FRENCH, FONTAINEBLEAU SCHOOL

'Cleopatra'

Bequeathed to NG by Mr M. W. Jacobson, 1947

NG5762

Provenance

Maurice Woolff Jacobson (D), Paris and London, 1944;†*

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance prior to 1944

Confirmation of details of acquisition by Jacobson

Additional information

Recovered in France, Jacobson is believed to have acquired it in Paris

FRENCH OR NORTH ITALIAN

'The Visitation'

Bought by NG from Colnaghi's (D), 1944

NG5448

Provenance

Lord Boston, Hedsor, Bucks;*

His executors' sale , Christie's, London, 6 March 1942;*

Leger (D), London;*

Colnaghi's (D), London; *

Questions 1933-1945

Details of acquisition by Boston

FRIEDRICH

'Winter Landscape'

32 x 45cm.

Bought at Christie's, Monaco, 1987

NG6517

Provenance

Private collection Paris, 1982;*†

Christie's, Monaco, 7 December 1987,*

Questions 1933-1945

Any provenance details prior to 1982

Details of acquisition and disposal by private collector

Provenance details between 1982 and 1987

Details of vendor 1987.

Additional information

Possibly a Russian prince from the family of Prince Gregorii Grehorevich Gagarin.

FYT (attributed)

'Still life with Fruit, Dead Game and a Parrot'

Bequeathed to NG by Claude Dickason Rotch, 1962.

NG6335

Provenance

Claude Dickason Rotch, London, by 1953;*

Questions 1933-1945

Details and Date of acquisition by Rotch

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GAERTNER

'The Friedrichsgracht, Berlin'

Bought by the NG from Hildegard Fritz-Denneville Fine Arts, 1989

NG6524

Provenance

Ernst-Jürgen Otto, Berlin, until c.1950;*

Private collection, Munich;

Hildegard Fritz- Denneville Fine Arts, London;

Questions 1933-1945

Details and date of acquisition by Otto, and confirmation of date of sale.

GENTILESCHI, ARTEMISIA

'Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria'

Bought by NG from Marco Voena, Old & Modern Masters Ltd., and Fabrizio Moretti, 2018

NG6671

Provenance

The Boudeville family; [1] by descent to Charles Marie Boudeville [- early 1940s], Châtenois, Vosges, France; {1} by descent to Georges Boudeville [1930-1984], his son; [2] by descent to Nicolas Boudeville [1966-], his son; purchased at auction by Marco Voena, Old & Modern Masters Ltd., and Fabrizio Moretti, at Christophe Joron-Derem, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France, 19 December 2017 (lot 69); purchased by the National Gallery, 2018.

NG6671

Notes

[1]. Believed to have been in the possession of the Boudeville family for several generations.

[2]. Nicolas Boudeville, Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite, was Georges Boudeville’s only son.

Questions 1933-45

{1}. Documentary confirmation of ownership prior to Charles Marie Boudeville.

GIAQUINTO

'Apotheosis of the Spanish (?) Monarchy (?)'

Bought by NG from Matthiesen (D), 1954

NG6229

Provenance

Bought in Brussels (unattributed) by Herbert Bier, 1954;*

Matthiesen (D), London, 1954; purchased by NG, 1954

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance before Bier

Confirmation of date and details of acquisition by Bier

GIAQUINTO

'The Brazen Serpent' and 'Moses striking the Rock'

Bought by NG from Matthiesen Fine Art (D), 1987

NG6515-6

Provenance

De Heuvel, Brussels, by 16 November 1953 [a] {1} {2};

purchased by Jack Baer [1924-2016] and Herbert Bier [1905-1981], 16 November 1953 [b];

purchased by Matthiesen Gallery, London, 22 October 1954 [c];

purchased by the National Gallery, 1954.

Questions 1933-1945

{1}. Confirmation of date and details of acquisition by de Heuvel.
 
{2}. Provenance before de Heuvel.

Citations
 
[a]. Wallace Collection Archive, London, BIER/5/2/004/082.
 
[b]. Wallace Collection Archive, London, BIER/5/2/004/082.
 
[c]. Wallace Collection Archive, London, BIER/5/2/004/082.

GIORDANO

'The Martyrdom of Saint Januarius'

Bought by NG from Colnaghi's (D), 1962

NG 6327

Provenance

Florentine dealer, Salvatore Romano pre-1939;*

Carlo Sestieri, Rome; from whom bought c.1961-2 by*

Colnaghi's (D), London*

Questions 1933-1945

Dates and details of acquisition and disposal by Salvatore Romano

Details and details of aquisition by Sestieri

GIORDANO

'Perseus turning Phineas and his Followers to Stone'

275 x 366cm.

Bought by NG from Matthiesen Fine Art (D), 1983.

NG6487

Provenance

Christie's, London, 12 December 1980;*

Matthiesen Fine Art (D), London; as from a European collector

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance prior to 1980

Details of vendor, 1980

Gonzalès, Eva

‘The Full-length Mirror’

Bought thanks to generous legacies from Mrs Martha Doris Bailey and Mr Richard Hillman Bailey, Miss Gillian Cleaver, and Ms Sheila Mary Holmes, with the support of the National Gallery Trust, 2024

NG6702

Provenance

- 1885
Edouard Dentu (1830‒1884), Paris; with his estate until 1885

1885 -
By descent to his widow, Louise Léonie Dentu, née Faure-Decamps (1842‒1914), Paris and possibly Cap d'Ail

- 29 May 1952
Camille Félicie Leroux (Mme Camille Haudebert/Hodebert) (1875‒1953)

29 May 1952 -
Purchased by an unrecorded buyer (Camille Félicie Leroux Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 29 May 1952, lot 115)

13 November 1952 ‒ 30 November 1953
Arthur Tooth and Sons Ltd, London

30 November 1953 ‒ 2024
From whom purchased by a private collector, United Kingdom
By descent within their family, United Kingdom

2024
From whom purchased by the National Gallery, London, thanks to generous legacies from Mrs Martha Doris Bailey and Mr Richard Hillman Bailey, Miss Gillian Cleaver, and Ms Sheila Mary Holmes, with the support of the National Gallery Trust

Questions 1933‒1945
Unknown provenance: between 1885 and 1952
Unknown acquisition: Camille Félicie Leroux (before 1952)
Unknown acquisition method: Camille Félicie Leroux (before 1952)
Unknow location: Camille Félicie Leroux (before 1952)

GOYEN

'The Mouth of an Estuary with a Gateway'

Presented to NG by Alice Bleecker, 1981.

NG6464

Provenance

Rudolph Ernst Brandt, London;*

Alice Bleecker, *

Questions 1933-1945

Details and dates of acquisition and disposal by Brandt

Date and details of Acquisition by Bleecker

GRANET, FRANÇOIS-MARIUS

'Tivoli Roofs'

Presented by the Lishawa family, 2018

NG6672

Provenance
Minorco Collection, London, by 1998; {1} purchased by John Lishawa, Christie's, in Paris, 14 September 2017 (lot 130); gift to the National Gallery, 2018.

Questions 1933-45
{1} Provenance prior to 1998; date and method of acquisition by Minorco Collection.

GREUZE

'Portrait of a Man'

Bought by NG, 1985

NG 6500

Provenance

Sold by Hendrick Elias, Sotheby's, New York, 3 April 1985, where bought by Stair Sainty, Fine Art Inc., by whom sold to the NG.*

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance prior to Elias

Date and details of acquisition by Elias.

GUARDI

'Venice: The Punta della Dogana' and 'Venice: The Giudecca with the Zitelle'

Bequeathed to the NG by Charles and Elizabeth Carstairs, 1952

NG6156-7

Provenance

Sabin, 1911;*

Charles and Elizabeth Carstairs, London and NY;*

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of disposal by Sabin

Date and details of acquisition by Carstairs

GUERCINO

'The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple'

Bequeathed by Sir Denis Mahon, 2011; entered the collection, 2013

NG6646

Provenance

Sotheby’s, London, 24 June 1953 (Ashburnham sale), lot 40, where acquired by Sir Denis Mahon*

Questions 1933-1945

Whereabouts between 1933 and 1945

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ATTRIBUTED TO GERRIT WILLEMSZ. HEDA

'Still life with Nautilus Cup'

Bequeathed to the NG by Claude Dickason Rotch, 1962.

NG6336

Provenance

Claude Dickason Rotch, London;*

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance prior to acquisition by Rotch

Details and dates of acquisition by Rotch

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JONGKIND

'The Boulevard de Port-Royal, Paris'

Bequeathed to the NG by Kenneth Levy, 1990.

NG6529

Provenance

M.L. Tauber, Paris, 1921;*

M. Georges Levy by March 1937*

March 1937 bought by Arthur Tooth & Sons (D)

Sold by Tooth &b Sons to Herbert Levy;*

Kenneth Levy, London;*

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of disposal by Tauber

Date and details of acquisition by Georges Levy

Details and date of transfer/sale from Herbert Levy

Date of acquisition by Herbert Levy

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KESSEL, JAN VAN, THE ELDER

‘Butterflies, Moths and Insects with Sprays of Common Hawthorn and Forget-Me-Not’

Gift from the collection of Willem Baron van Dedem, 2017

NG6666

Provenance

Possibly with (Kunsthandel M[arcel] Wolff, Rokin 130, Amsterdam), 1938. [1]{1}

Collection Dr Hans A. Wetzlar [1894-1976], Amsterdam, by 1959; [2]
by descent to his daughter, Marga ten Haaf-Wetzlar [1922-2013], Amsterdam;
by whom sold, (Sotheby’s, London), 9 July 2008, lot 14 (with NG6667);
from whom purchased by (Johnny van Haeften, London);
from whom purchased by Willem Baron van Dedem [1929-2015];
gift from the collection of Willem Baron van Dedem to the National Gallery, 2017.

Questions 1933-45

{1} Provenance before Wetzlar in 1959.

Notes

Klaus Ertz and Christa Nitze-Ertz, 'Die Maler Jan van Kessel', Lingen 2012, p.262, no. 379.

Peter C. Sutton, 'The Collection of Willem Baron van Dedem: A Supplement' (The Hague, 2012).

 [1] The 2008 sale catalogue and Sutton 2012 cite Edith Griendl, 'Les peintres flamands de nature morte au XVIIe siècle' (Brussels, 1956), p. 176, and 2nd edn (Brussels, 1983), p. 365, no. 7, as referring to NG6667, a pair with NG6666. However, the dimensions of the painting (17 x 22.5 cm) given there for the work with Kunsthandel M. Wolff in 1938 do not correspond with either NG6666 or NG6667. Therefore their provenance before being purchased by Wetzlar should be considered uncertain.

[2] Hans Alfred Wetzlar was active in the art trade from about 1940; it is not clear exactly when he began to form his personal collection of 15th- to 17th-century paintings. As the paintings by van Kessel, NG6666 and NG6667, do not appear in the catalogue of the Wetzlar collection published in 1952, it is very possible that they were acquired after that date.

KESSEL, JAN VAN, THE ELDER

‘Butterflies, Moths and Insects with Sprays of Creeping Thistle and Borage’

Gift from the collection of Willem Baron van Dedem, 2017

NG6667

Provenance

Possibly with (Kunsthandel M[arcel] Wolff, Rokin 130, Amsterdam), 1938. [1]{1}

Collection Dr Hans A. Wetzlar [1894-1976], Amsterdam, by 1959; [2]
by descent to his daughter, Marga ten Haaf-Wetzlar [1922-2013], Amsterdam;
by whom sold, (Sotheby’s, London), 9 July 2008, lot 14 (with NG6666);
from whom purchased by (Johnny van Haeften, London);
from whom purchased by Willem Baron van Dedem [1929-2015];
gift from the collection of Willem Baron van Dedem to the National Gallery, 2017.

Questions 1933-45

{1} Provenance before Wetzlar in 1959.

Notes

Klaus Ertz and Christa Nitze-Ertz, 'Die Maler Jan van Kessel', Lingen 2012, p.262, no. 379.
Peter C. Sutton, 'The Collection of Willem Baron van Dedem: A Supplement' (The Hague, 2012).

 [1] The 2008 sale catalogue and Sutton 2012 cite Edith Griendl, 'Les peintres flamands de nature morte au XVIIe siècle' (Brussels, 1956), p. 176, and 2nd edn (Brussels, 1983), p. 365, no. 7, as referring to the present painting; however, the dimensions of the painting (17 x 22.5 cm) given there for the work with Kunsthandel M. Wolff in 1938 do not correspond with either NG6667, or its pair NG6666. Therefore their provenance before being purchased by Wetzlar should be considered uncertain.

[2] Hans Alfred Wetzlar was active in the art trade from about 1940; it is not clear exactly when he began to form his personal collection of fifteenth- to seventeenth-century paintings. As the paintings by van Kessel, NG6666 and NG6667, do not appear in the catalogue of the Wetzlar collection published in 1952, it is very possible that they were acquired after that date.

KØBKE

'The Northern Drawbridge to the Citadel in Copenhagen'

Bought by NG at Sotheby's, 1986

NG6507

Provenance

Th. Lyngby (D), Copenhagen, 1912;*

Hans Tobiesen, Copenhagen. 1944;*

Winkel and Magnussen auction, Copenhagen, October 1953;*

Bogh Andersen;

Sotheby's, London, 17 June 1986;

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of disposal by Lyngby

Date and details of acquisition and disposal by Tobiesen

Details of vendor 1953.

KØBKE

'Portrait of Wilhelm Bendz'

Bought by NG at Christie's, 1993.

NG6542

Provenance

Martin Grosell (D), Copenhagen, by 1921;*

Hjalmar Bruhn, Copenhagen. by 1934;*

Danske Malerier Antikviter auction, Copenhagen 9 March 1959;*

Private collector, Denmark;

Sold Christie's 1993

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of disposal by Grosell

Date and details of acquisition and disposal by Bruhn

Details of vendor 1959

KOEKKOEK

'View of Oudewater'

Bequeathed to the NG by Miss I. M. Hawkins Turner, London, 1982

NG6472

Provenance

Miss I. M Hawkins Turner, London, by1982 *

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of acquisition by Miss I. M. Hawkins Turner

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LAGRENEE, LOUIS JEAN FRANCOIS

'Maternal Affection'

A gift from the Estate of Brian Sewell

NG6663

Provenance

Possibly exhibited at the Salon, Paris, 1775, no. 8;

Possibly William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (1737–1805);

His sale, 19–20 March 1806, lot 42 (“Maternal Affection – a beautiful group”), for 14 guineas to “Mr. Taylor”;

Acquired in the 1960s by Brian Sewell

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance prior to the 1960s; exact date of acquisition by Brian Sewell

LA HYRE

'Allegory of Grammar'

103 x 113cm.

Bequeathed to NG by F.F. Madan, 1961

NG6329

Provenance

André Seligmann (D), Paris, by 1937;* From whom bought by

Francis Falconer Madan, London, 1938;*

bequeathed by him, 1961

Questions 1933-1945

Details and dates of acquisition/disposal by Seligmann

LANCRET

'The Four Times of the Day'

Bequeathed to the NG by Sir Bernard Eckstein, 1948

NG5867-70

Provenance

Christie's, London, 22 February 1935;* where bought by

Vicars;*

Sir Bernard Eckstein, London*

Questions 1933-1945

Details of Vendor 1935,

Confirm details and date of disposal by Vicars

Confirm date and details of acquisition by Eckstein

LASTMAN

'Juno discovering Jupiter with Io'

Presented to the NG by Julius Weitzner in 1957

NG6272

Provenance

Max Koetser (D), London;*

Christie's, London, 3 May 1957;*

Doward;

Julius Weitzner, NY;

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of acquisition by Koetser

Confirm details of vendor 1957

LEPINE

'Nuns and Schoolgirls in the Tuileries Gardens, Paris'

Presented to the NG by Mrs. H. W. Rawlinson, 1963

NG6346

Provenance

Arnold & Tripp (D), Paris; *

Mrs H.W. Rawlinson; *

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Arnold & Tripp

Date and details of acquisition by Rawlinson

Additional information

On the reverse is a label reading 'Megret'

LE SUEUR

'Saint Paul preaching at Ephesus'

Bought by the NG from Colnaghi's (D), 1959

NG6299

Provenance

Hender Delves Molesworth, London, 1957; *

Colnaghi's (D), London;

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of acquisition by Molesworth and, (if necessary) further provenance back to 1933.

LEYSTER

'A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel'

Bequeathed to the NG by C.F. Leach, 1943

NG5417

Provenance

Auction, London, 8 July 1910;

Reynolds (D), London;*

Mrs Holbrook, Burton-on-Trent;*

Her sale at Christie's, London, 17 February 1939; where bought by

Vicars;*

C.F. Leach, Surrey;

Questions 1933-1945

Confirm date and details of acquisition by Reynolds

Confirm date and details of acquisition by Holbrook

Date of disposal by Vicars

Date of acquisition by Leach

LINGELBACH, JAN (Possibly by)

'Roman Street Scene with Card Players'

Presented by the Trustees of Sir Denis Mahon's Charitable Trust through the Art Fund, 2013

NG6640

Provenance

John Francis Austen (d. 1893) of Capel Manor, Horsmonden, Kent*

His widow, Mrs Georgiana F. Pearse

Sale Christie’s, London, 10 July 1931, lot 59, as Soldiers playing cards, in an Italian town, bought by Meatyard/Meteyard

Mrs G. C. H. Kwantes before 1958

Her sale at Sotheby’s, 2 April 1958, lot 1, bought by Colnaghi, from whom acquired by Denis Mahon in 1959

Questions 1933-1945

Further information on Meatyard/Meteyard?
 
Acquisition date by Mrs G.C.H. Kwantes?

LISS, JOHAN

'The Fall of Phaeton'

Presented by the Trustees of Sir Denis Mahon's Charitable Trust through the Art Fund, 2013

NG6641

Provenance

Colonel M. A. Swinfen-Broun (died in 1948), Swinfen Hall, Lichfield

Christie’s, London, 10 December 1948, lot 76 (as Albano), where acquired by Denis Mahon

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance before 1948?

Date of acquisition by Colonel M. A. Swinfen-Broun (1858-1948)? 

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MARIS, J.

'A Girl seated outside a House'

Transferred from Tate to NG, 1956

NG5568

Provenance

Christie's, unknown date; *

Frank Claughton Mathews, Hampshire; *

Mary James Mathews; *

bequeathed to Tate Gallery, 1944;

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance prior to sale at Christie's

Date and details of vendor and purchaser at Christie's

Date and details of acquisition by Matthews

Confirm details of transfer to Mary James Matthews

WORKSHOP OF THE MASTER OF THE ST. BARTHOLOMEW ALTARPIECE

'The Virgin and Child in Glory and Saint James the Great and Saint Cecilia'

Bought by NG at Christie's, 1984.

NG6497

Provenance

Christie's, London, 14 December 1984;*

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance details prior to 1984

Details of vendor 1984.

MAULBERTSCH

'Allegory of the Continent of Asia'

Bought by NG, 2013

NG6647

Provenance

Bavarian private collection;

Sold 5 December 2008 at Hampel Fine Art Auctions, Munich, lot 256;

Ulrich Hofstaetter, Vienna;

Bought 2013.

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance prior to 5 December 2008

Identity of the Bavarian private collection, and details of acquisition by it

MEISSONIER

'A Man in Black smoking a Pipe'

Presented to NG by Mrs Alice Bleecker, 1981

NG6468

Provenance

Rudolph Ernst Brandt, London;*

Mrs Alice Bleecker; *

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Brandt

Date and details of acquisition by Bleecker

MELONE

'Christ carrying the Cross'

Bought by NG from Philip Pouncey, 1993

NG6546

Provenance

S. Isepp, by 1949; *

Mrs S. Isepp;

Sotheby's, 26 June 1957;

Philip Pouncey, London;

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of acquisition by Isepp

MENZEL, ADOLPH

'Afternoon in the Tuileries Gardens'

Bought with the assistance of the American Friends of the National Gallery, London, the George Beaumont Group and a number of gifts in wills, including a legacy from Mrs Martha Doris Bailey in memory of her husband Mr Richard Hillman Bailey, 2006

NG6604

Provenance

Fritz Meyer, Berlin, 1868

Mrs Fritz Meyer, Berlin, 1885

Elika Meyer, Berlin, 1905

Richard Mortiz Meyer and Estella Meyer (née Goldschmidt), Berlin, 1914

Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Galerie Neue Meister (Inv. N. 2442A), 1935 Restituted to the Meyer Family, 2005

Dr Alfred Bader, Milwaukee, WI, represented by the Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich, from whom purchased by the National Gallery, 2006

MILLET (follower)

'Landscape with Buildings'

Bequeathed to NG by Sir Victor Wellesley, 1954

NG6253

Provenance

Mrs Bloomfield Moore, Philadelphia, 1901; *

Fine Art Society (D), London, 1938; * From whom bought that year by

Sir Victor Wellesley, UK; *

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of disposal by Bloomfield Moore

Details and date of acquisition by FAS

MOLENAER

'Two boys and a Girl making Music'

Bequeathed to NG by C.F. Leach, 1943

NG5416

Provenance

Auction, London, 12 June 1931;*

Leyman,*

C.F Leach, Surrey, by 1941; *

Questions 1933-1945

Details of purchaser 1931

Details and date of acquisition/disposal by Leyman

Date of acquisition by Leach

MOMPER

'Rocky Landscape with Saint John the Baptist'

Bequeathed by George Grimes Watson, 2015

NG6657

Provenance

Collection Onko Jalmar Tjardo Nyegaard Domela Nieuwenhuis (1894–1988), The Netherlands, by whom sold to

Galerie Cramer, The Hague, by 1968 and until at least 1971

Possibly sale Versailles (J.-P. Chapelle), 16 May 1976, lot 82

Sale London (Christie’s), 25 March 1977, lot 104 (bought in)

Sale London (Christie’s), 15 December 1978, lot 86 (bought in)

Sale London (Christie’s), 18 December 1980, lot 159

Alan Jacobs Gallery, London

From whom purchased by George G.Watson, Cambridge, 12 June 1981

Questions 1933-1945

Whereabouts prior to 1968?
Confirm date of acquisition by O. J. T. Nyegaard Domela Nieuwenhuis

MONET

'The Petit Bras of the Seine at Argenteuil'

Bequeathed to NG by Sir Robert Hart, 1971

NG6395

Provenance

Laederich; *

Turckheim; *

Galerie Lorençeau (Paris?) 1955 *

Arthur Tooth (D), London, 1955

Sir Robert Hart, London, 1955 (within a few months);

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Laederich

Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Terckheim

Date and details of acquisition by Galerie Lorencau

MONET

'Snow Scene at Argenteuil'

Bequeathed by Simon Sainsbury, 2006

NG6607

Provenance

Acquired from Théodore Duret, December 1879

With Boussod, Valandon et Cie, Paris, 1892

Acquired by Harris Whittemore, Naugatuck, CT, 1893

Private collection USA

Acquavella Galleries, New York, early 1970’s

Simon Sainsbury, London

Questions 1933-1945

Whereabouts between 1933 and 1945

MONET

'Water-Lilies, Setting Sun'

Bequeathed by Simon Sainsbury, 2006
 
NG6608

Provenance

Sold by Monet to Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, August 1923
 
Henri Cannone, Paris, January 1924

Durand-Ruel, Paris

Anonymous sale, Palais Galliera, Paris, 2 June 1971, lot 92

Anonymous sale, Christie’s, London, 2 December 1975, lot 25

Simon Sainsbury, London

Questions 1933-1945

Whereabouts between 1933 and 1945

MONET

'La Pointe de la Hève, Sainte-Adresse'

Acquired through Sotheby's by NG, 1996

NG6565

Provenance

Neue Staatsgalerie, Munich, 1907;

De-accessioned by the museum (with other works) in January 1940 to Karl Haberstock, dealer in Berlin, in exchange for a painting by Hans Thoma;

Wildenstein (D), Paris; *

Mr and Mrs Norman B. Woolworth, NY, 1954;

Christie's, London, 19 June 1964;

Agnew's (D), London; Sotheby's, London, 24 June 1996 (unsold);

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Wildenstein

MONET

'The Thames below Westminster'

Bequeathed by Lord Astor of Hever, 1971

NG6399

Provenance

Bought by Durand-Ruel from artist in 1872;

sold by Durand-Ruel to Ernest Hoschedé in 1877.

Collection Jean-Baptiste Faure;

1906 deposited with a number of other pictures from the Faure collection back with Durand-Ruel;

bought by him in March 1907;

1914 sent to Cassirer, Berlin, who, contrary to Durand-Ruel's instructions, sold it, and a number of other paintings.

Confiscated by the German Government.

1934 with Alfred Gold, who offered it to the National Gallery (Tate Archives);

bought by Tooth from Gold in March 1936;

sold in same month to John Jacob Astor (later Lord Astor of Hever);

bequeathed by Lord Astor of Hever, 1971.

Questions 1933-1945

Ownership prior to seizure by German government.

Fate of painting after seizure by German government.

Date of acquisition by Alfred Gold.

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NATTIER

'Portrait of a Man in Armour'

Given to NG by Emilie Yznaga (d. 1944) in 1937 subject to her life interest, 1945

NG5587

Provenance

Possibly Consuelo, Duchess of Manchester, UK, until 1909;*

Recorded in the collection of Emilie Yznaga (sister of Duchess), Paris in 1936; *

Questions 1933-1945

Confirm details of acquisition by Emilie Yznaga

NETHERLANDISH (c1640)

'Portrait of a Girl with a Parrot'

Bequeathed to NG by Nona Ann, Lady Colman of Middleton Manor, Wilts., 1985

NG6498

Provenance

Lady Colman, UK by 1985; *

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of acquisition by Lady Coleman

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OS

'Fruit and Flowers in a Terracotta Vase'

presented to NG by Violet Churchman, 1988

NG6520

Provenance

Sir William Churchman, Suffolk, by 1947*

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of acquisition by Sir William Churchman

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PANINI

'Rome: The Interior of St Peter's'

Bought by NG from F.A. Drey, 1942.

NG5362

Provenance

Du Cane, Braxted Park, Essex;*

Auction, London, 30 April 1942; *

F.A. Drey;

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of acquisition by Du Cane

Details of Vendor and purchaser 1942

PARET

'View of El Arenal de Bilbao'

Bought by NG from Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox (D), 1983

NG6489

Provenance

Christie's, London, 24 March 1922; *

Major and the Hon. Mrs Bertram Bell, Ireland, by 1957; *

Christie's, London, 2 December 1983; *

Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox (D), London;

Questions 1933-1945

Confirm purchaser 1922

Provenance between 1922-1983

Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Bell

Details of vendor 1983

PATEL

'Landscape with the Rest on the Flight to Egypt'

Bought by NG from Didier Aaron (D), NY 1988

NG6513

Provenance

Christie's, Bologna, 27-8 September 1986;*

Didier Aaron (D), NY;

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance pre-1986

Details of vendor 1986

PELLEGRINI

'Rebecca at the Well'

Bequeathed to NG by Claude Dickason Rotch, 1962

NG6332

Provenance

Claude Dickason Rotch, London, 1950's *

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance pre-1950's

Date and details of acquisition by Rotch

PEYRON

'Belisarius receiving Hospitality from a Peasant' and 'Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi'

Bought by NG from Michael Simpson (D), 1995

NG6551-2

Provenance

Private collection, France; from which sold at auction,

Japhet, Nice, 15 December 1994; *

Michael Simpson (D), London;

Questions 1933-1945

Dates and details of vendor 1994 and (if necessary) prior provenance back to 1933

PICASSO

'Fruit Dish, Bottle and Violin'

92 x 73cm.

Bought by NG from Marlborough Fine Art (D), 1979

NG6449

Provenance

Count Etienne de Beaumont, Paris; *

Marlborough Fine Art (D), 1979; *

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of acquisition/disposal by de Beaumont

Vendor 1979

CAMILLE PISSARRO

'The Avenue, Sydenham'

Bought, 1984

NG6493

Provenance

Purchased by Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922), almost certainly in London in 1871;

Galerie Durand-Ruel until some time between 1924 and 1932.

Private collection, Switzerland, before May 1937;

purchased at auction on behalf of the Gallery by Desmond Corcoran of the Lefevre Gallery, Christie’s, 26 March, 1984. 

Questions 1933-45

Date of disposal by Galerie Durand-Ruel.

Owner(s) between Galerie Durand-Ruel and Swiss private collection

Date of acquisition by Swiss private collection.

POLIDORO DA CARAVAGGIO
'The Way to Calvary'

Bought with a grant from The Art Fund (with a contribution from the Wolfson Foundation) and donations from the George Beaumont Group, 2003

NG6594

Provenance

Acquired from Max Koetser (D), London, in the mid-1930s by Alfred Scharf (1900-1965), as Scharf informed Pouncey

Anonymous sale, Christie’s, London, 19 June 1959, lot 71

Philip Pouncey (1910-1990)

Thence by descent

The purchase of this painting was made possible by the National Art Collections Fund and the George Beaumont Group

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of acquisition by Max Koetser?

Details of vendor 1959

PRETI

'The Marriage at Cana'

Bought by NG from Dr Vitale Bloch (D), 1966

NG6372

Provenance

Gerace, Naples, before 1959; *

Dr Vitale Bloch (D);

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of acquisition by Gerace

PREVITALI (attributed)

'Scenes from an Eclogue of Tebaldeo' - NG4884.1

'Scenes from an Eclogue of Tebaldeo' - NG4884.2

Bought by NG from Salzer, Vienna, 1937

NG4884.1-2

Provenance

Count Luigi da Porto, Vicenza, until 1936; *

Podio, Venice; *

Salzer, Vienna; *

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of acquisition by da Porto

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REDON

'Ophelia among the Flowers'

64 x 91cm.

Bought by NG from Marlborough Fine Art (D), 1977

NG6438

Provenance

Mme. Mottart; *

sold Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 8 Feb. 1945; *

César de Hauke, 1948;

Mr & Mrs Albert D. Lasker, USA;

Marlborough Fine Art (D), London;

Questions 1933-1945

Details of acquisition and disposal by Mottart

Confirm vendor 1945

RÉMOND, CHARLES

'View in Italy'

Presented by the Lishawa family, 2018

NG 6674

Provenance

Private collection, France; {1} purchased by John Lishawa; gift to the National Gallery, 2018.

Questions 1933-45

{1} Provenance prior to appearance in private collection; date and method of acquisition by private collection.

RÉMOND, CHARLES

'View of Capri from Anacapri'

Presented by the Lishawa family, 2018

NG 6677

Provenance

Private collection, France; {1} purchased by John Lishawa; gift to the National Gallery, 2018.

Questions 1933-45

{1} Provenance prior to appearance in private collection; date and method of acquisition by private collection.

RENOIR

'A Nymph by a Stream'

Bought by NG from Lefevre (D), 1951

NG5982

Provenance

Raphaël Gerard, Paris, 1927; *

Sir Victor Schuster, London, by 1942; *

Lefevre (D), London, by 1948; *

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of disposal by Gerard

Provenance between 1927 - 1942

Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Schuster

Date and details of acquisition by Lefevre

RENOIR

'Lakeside Landscape'

Bequeathed to NG by Kenneth Levy, 1990

NG6528

Provenance

Bought in 1935 from A.N. Whyte by Reid & Lefevre (D), by whom sold to *

Kenneth Levy, London; 1936 *

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance pre- 1935

Date and details of acquisition by A.N. Whyte

RIGAUD

'Antoine Pâris'

Bought by NG from Heim (D), 1975

NG6428

Provenance

Mme. Gosset, 1917; *

Vicomtesse de Fontanges; *

Heim (D), London; *

Questions 1933-1945

Details and date of disposal by Gosset

Details and date of acquisition/disposal by de Fontanges

Details and date of acquisition by Heim

STUDIO OF ALEXANDRE ROSLIN

'The Dauphin, Louis de France'

Given to NG by Emilie Yznaga, (d.1944) in 1937, subject to her life interest

NG5588

Provenance

Possibly Consuelo, Duchess of Manchester, UK, until 1909; *

Emilie Yznaga (sister of Duchess), Paris by 1937; *

Questions 1933-1945

Confirm details and date of acquisition by Yznaga

ROSS

'Prince Albert'

Presented to the NG by Mr. Edwin Bucher, 1991

NG 6537

Provenance

Mr Edwin Bucher by 1991*

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of acquisition by Bucher

ROSSO FIORENTINO

'Portrait of a Young Man holding a Letter'

Bought by Private Treaty sale from an English private collection, November 2000.

NG6584

Provenance

Edoardo Moratilla (1901 - 1973), Paris (shortly before February 1965)

P & D Colnaghi, London; sold February 1965

English private collection

Bought by Private Treaty sale, November 2000.

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance pre-1965

Date and details of acquisition by Moratilla

Additional information

Inscribed on the reverse: Jacopo da Pontormo / Florence. 1540 (ie. formerly attributed to Pontormo)

RUBENS

'The Judgement of Paris'

Bought by NG from Mrs R. Savage, 1966

NG6379

Provenance

Coulter, York, between 1934-40; *

Robert Savage, Northampton; *

Mrs Savage;

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance pre-1934

Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Coulter

Date and details of acquisition by Robert Savage

Additional information

label with the name 'Ballen' on the reverse.

RUYSCH

'Flowers in a Vase'

Bequeathed to NG by Alan Newton Aidan Evans 1974

NG6425

Provenance

Christies, London, 22 June 1925, sold to 'Evans'

Alan Newton Aidan Evans, London by 1974*

Questions 1933-1945

Confirm identity of 'Evans' at 1925 sale

Date and details of acquisition by A.N.A. Evans

RYSSELBERGHE

'Coastal Scene'

Purchase, 2000

NG 6582

Provenance

In a private British collection from about 1960

Phillips, London, 7 December 1999, lot 14

Colnaghi, London

Acquired by the National Gallery by purchase, 2000

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance before about 1960

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SARACENI

'Moses defending the Daughters of Jethro'

bequeathed to NG, 1978 by Benedict Nicolson

NG6446

Provenance

Vitale Bloch (D); *

Benedict Nicolson, London, 1954; *

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance prior to Bloch

Date and details of acquisition by Bloch

Confirm date of acquisition by Nicolson

SCHNORR VON CAROLSFELD

'Ruth in Boaz's Field'

purchased by NG from French & Co. (D), 1997

NG6570

Provenance

Herr Hofr. Carus; *

Private collection, US;*

Sotheby's, NY, 24 October 1996; *

French & Co (D), NY;

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Carus

Date and details of acquisition/disposal by private collector

Details of vendor 1996

SOLDERA, ERMINIO

'View of Trees and Vegetation'

Presented by the Lishawa family, 2018

NG 6679

Provenance

Private collection, Italy; {1} purchased by John Lishawa; gift to the National Gallery, 2018.

Questions 1933-45

{1} Provenance prior to appearance in private collection; date and method of acquisition by private collection.

TELEMACO SIGNORINI

Sketch for 'Straw Weavers at Settignano'

Presented in memory of Beniamino Forti by his daughter Luciana, 2008

NG6610

Provenance

With the artist until 1901

Comm. Paolo Signorini, the artist’s son (stamp on reverse of board)

Sale of the contents of Signorini’s studio, Galleria Pesaro, Milan, 1930, lot 196 Probably purchased there by Beniamino Moretti, Venice

By descent to his daughter, Luciana Moretti Forti, by whom presented to the National Gallery, 2008

Question 1933-1945

Details of Beniamino Moretti’s acquisition?

SIMONINI (attributed)

'A Campaign Scene'

Transferred to NG from Tate Gallery 1944

NG5465

Provenance

Frederick Cavendish; *

presented to Tate Gallery, 1944;*

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Cavendish

Confirm presented to Tate by Cavendish

SOLIMENA

'Portrait of a Lady'

Presented to NG by Mrs E. Antal, 1955.

NG6254

Provenance

Ernst Remak, Berlin, 1920s; *

Dealer in Rome; *

Frederick Antal, Rome and London; *

Questions 1933 - 1945

Date and details of disposal by Remak

Source and details of Dealer in Rome

Date and details of acquisition by Antal

SOLIMENA

'Dido receiving Aeneas and Cupid disguised as Ascanius'

purchased by NG from Heim (D), 1971

NG6397

Provenance

Vittorio Cini, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, in 1949;
Franco Marinotti, Palazzo Grassi, Venice;
Heim (D), London.

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance prior to Cini

Date and details of acquisition by Heim

SOLIMENA

'An Allegory of Louis XIV'

Bequeathed to NG by Sir Philip Hendy, 1989

NG6521

Provenance

Maratilla (D), Italy; *

Colnaghi's (D), London, 1964; *

Sir Philip Hendy, London;.

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance prior to Maratilla

Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Maratilla

Confirm date of acquisition by Colnaghi's

STROZZI

'A Personification of Fame'

Bought by NG from Malcolm Waddingham (D), 1961

N6321

Provenance

Private collection, England, 1930s; *

Malcolm Waddingham (D), UK; *

Questions 1933-1945

Details of private collector and date of disposal

Date acquired by Waddingham and details of vendor

SUBLEYRAS

'Diana and Endymion'

Acquired by the National Gallery under the Acceptance-in-Lieu Scheme in 2002

NG 6592

Provenance

Cardinal Fesch sale, Rome 1845 where bought by Colombo;

Sold by Sir Vivyan Naylor-Leyland of Nantclwyd Hall, Ruthin , North Wales, Christie's, London, 17 May 1957, lot 28, as by Huet where bought by Scharf;

Bought by Mrs. Robert Frank from whom bought by Colnaghi;

Bought by the late Sir Brindsley Ford from whose estate it was acquired by the British Government under the AIL Scheme and then allocated to the NG.

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance between 1845 and 1957

For whom acquired, or to whom sold, by Colombo

Date of acquisition by Naylor-Leyland family

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TAILLASSON

'Virgil reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Octavia'

Bought by NG FROM Heim (D), 1974

NG6426

Provenance

Alfred Olsen, Copenhagen; *,

his estate's sale, Rasmussen auction, Copenhagen, 2 December 1954; *

Rasmussen auction, Copenhagen, 8 October 1964;

Heim (D), London;

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of acquisition by Olsen

TENIERS, DAVID, THE YOUNGER

‘Christ Crowned with Thorns’

Gift from the collection of Willem Baron van Dedem, 2017

NG6665

Provenance

J. P. Lebrun Collection; sale Lebrun, Paris, 20-24 March 1810, lot 216 (to Simon).

Cardinal Fesch, France (and after 1815, Rome), cat. 1841, lot 211; his sale, Rome, 17 March 1844, lot 231 (4,500 Roman ecu).

Prince de Canino.

William, 1st Earl of Dudley and 11th Baron Ward (1817-85).

Sale (Christie’s, London), 25 June 1892, lot 23.

With Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1898, cat. 205.

Maurice Kann, Paris;his sale, Paris, 9 June 1911, cat. 76. {1}

Private collection, France. {2, 3, 4}

Sale, (Nouveau Drouot, Adler-Picart-Tajan, Paris), 7 December 1981, lot 42, to (Noortman & Brod, London); Willem Baron van Dedem [1929-2015]; gift from the collection of Willem Baron van Dedem to the National Gallery, 2017.

Questions 1933-45

{1} Provenance between Kann sale and private collection.
{2} Date and source of acquisition by private collection.
{3} Date and recipient of disposal by private collection.
{4} Provenance between private collection and 1981 sale.

Notes

Peter C. Sutton, 'Dutch & Flemish Paintings. The Collection of Willem Baron van Dedem', London 2002, p. 236, no. 51.

TIEPOLO

'Two Men in Oriental Costume'

'Rinaldo turning in Shame from the Magic Shield'

'Seated Man, Woman with Jar, and Boy'

'Two Orientals seated under a Tree'

Bought by NG from Rosenberg & Stiebel , 1960

NG6302-5

Provenance

Baroness Willy Rothschild, Frankfurt, 1902;*

lent anonymously to exhibition, Italiaansche Kunst in Nederlandsch Bezit, in Amsterdam, 1934; *

Madame de Becker (probably Baroness Renée de Becker, née Lambert, whose mother's maiden name was Rothschild), NY; *

Rosenberg and Stiebel; *

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of disposal by Rothschild

Any details on lender in 1934, and fate of pictures after exhibition

Date and details of acquisition by de Becker

Confirm vendor and date when sold to Rosenberg and Stiebel.

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UYTTENBROEK

'Landscape with Mythological Figures'

Bought by NG at Christie's, 1982.

NG6476

Provenance

Richard Green

Bought by Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox 1964

Bought by Michael Richards 1964

John Quilter

Consigned to Christie's via Hazlitt Gooden & Fox in 1981

Christie's, London, 23 April 1982;

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of acquisition by Richard Green.

Provenance before 1964

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VAN DE VELDE, E.

'A Winter Landscape'

Bought by NG from Eugene Slatter (D), 1957

NG6269

Provenance

J.H. Hunter BY 1956 *

Sotheby's,London, 4 July 1956;

Eugene Slatter (D), London;

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details acquired by Hunter

VAN DE VELDE, W.

'Dutch Ships in a Calm'

Presented to NG by Alice Bleecker, 1981

NG6465

Provenance

Possibly on Basel art market, 1942; *

Possibly Professor Ruzicka, Zurich, 1947; *

J.S. McKay, Hythe, 1948;

Edward Speelman (D), London, 1948;

Agnew's (D), London, 1948;

Rudolph Brandt, 1948;

Alice Bleecker;

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance prior to 1942-1947

Confirmation of work being offered at Basel, early 1940's

Date and details of acquisition by Ruzicka, if confirmed

VAN DYCK

'William Feilding, 1st Earl of Denbigh'

presented to NG by Count Antoine Seilern, 1945

NG5633

Provenance

William Rudolph Stephen Feilding, Warwickshire; * his sale

Christie's, London, 1 July 1938; * when bought by

Colnaghi's (D), London; *

Arthur Roper, UK, 1938; *

Count Antoine Seilern, London; *

Questions 1933-1945

Confirm sale to Roper

Date and details of acquisition by Seilern

VELAZQUEZ

'Portrait of Archbishop Fernando de Valdés'

Purchased by NG from Angus Bainbridge, 1967

NG6380

Provenance

Sir George I Campbell of Succoth, Scotland; *

Christie's, London, 19 July 1946 (sale of Sir George Hay Campbell, 6th Baronet); *

Hugh Borthwick-Norton, 1950;

Angus Bainbrigge, UK;

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of acquisition by Campbell

VENETIAN, ITALIAN

'Christ carrying the Cross'

Presented by Angus Neill, 2015

NG6655

Provenance

Weiss family, Stuttgart

By whom sold at Christie’s, London, 19 April 2002, lot 151

Questions

Provenance prior to 2002

VIGEE LE BRUN

'Mademoiselle Brongniart'

Bequeathed to NG by Sir Bernard Eckstein, 1948

NG5871

Provenance

Féral (D), 1930; *

A.J. Sulley (D), London;

* his estate sale Christie's, London, 1 June 1934; * bought by

Fuller; *

Sir Bernard Eckstein, London; *

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of disposal by Féral

Date and details of acquisition by Sulley;

Date and details of disposal by Fuller

Date and details of acquisition by Eckstein.

VON AACHEN

'The Amazement of the Gods (?)'

Bought by NG through Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, ?1982

NG 6475

Provenance

Sotheby's, untraced auction, c1930; * where bought by

Mrs E. Norris; *

Inherited by Mr and Mrs B. von Reis; *

Their sale Sotheby's, 21 April 1982;

Purchased through Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, London, by NG

Questions 1933-1945

Details of auction 1930

VOUET and studio

'Ceres and Harvesting Cupids'

purchased by NG from François Heim (D), 1958

NG6292

Provenance

Anon. Sale, Boisgirard, Paris, 1957 *

bought by François Heim (D), Paris;

Questions 1933-1945

Provenance prior to 1957

Details of vendor 1957

VUILLARD

'The Terrace at Vasouy, the Lunch'

Bought by NG from, César de Hauke, 1966

NG6373 (originally part of same work as NG6388)

Provenance

Madame Claude Anet; *

R. Gerard, France, 1936; *

Alfred Daber (D), Paris; *

César de Hauke; *

Questions 1933-1945

Details and date of acquisition and disposal by Anet

Ditto Gerard

Ditto Daber

Confirm date and details of acquisition by de Hauke

VUILLARD

'The Terrace at Vasouy, the Garden'

Bought by NG from Major A.E. Allnatt, 1970

NG6388 (originally part of same work as NG6373)

Provenance

Madame Claude Anet; *

R. Gerard, France, 1936; *

Alfred Daber (D), Paris; *

Major A.E. Allnatt *

Questions 1933-1945

Details and date of acquisition and disposal by Anet

Ditto Gerard

Ditto Daber

Confirm date and details of acquisition by Allnatt

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WALLIS, GEORGE AUGUSTUS

'View of the Roman Campagna'

Presented by the Lishawa family, 2018

NG6675

Provenance

Private collection, Lyon; {1} with Galerie Eric Coatalem, Paris, 1998; purchased by John Lishawa; gift to the National Gallery, 2018.

Questions 1933-45

{1} Provenance prior to appearance in private collection; date and method of acquisition by private collection.

WEENIX

'An Italian Courtyard'

Bought by NG from Mrs Gifford-Scott, 1980

NG6462

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's 16 July 1980, (Lot 11) *

Mrs Gifford-Scott, Surrey by 1980 *

Questions 1933-1945

Vendor 1980

Provenance prior to Gifford-Scott

Date and details of acquisition by Gifford-Scott

DAVID WILKIE

'A Young Woman kneeling at a Prayer Desk'

Bought with the support of a generous legacy from Miss Marcia Lay, 2014

NG6650

Provenance

Baron Pierre de Menasce (1924-2013)

Bought Doyle, New York auction, 29 January 2014, as attributed to Sir David Wilkie, ‘A Lady in Prayer’ by Ben Elwes, London, from whom bought by the Gallery with the support of a generous legacy from Miss Marcia Lay, 2014

Questions 1933-1945

Date of acquisition by Baron Pierre de Menasce?

WOUWERMANS

'Cavalry making a Sortie from a Fort on a Hill'

purchased by NG from W.R. Drown, 1956

NG6263

Provenance

Benjamin John Plunket, Ireland, 1915; *

probably Harry Wine (D), Dublin; *

Leonard Abrahamson, Dublin, by 1940; *

Sale, Christie's, London, 3 May 1940, (lot 104)

W.R. Drown, London; *

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of disposal by Plunket

Confirm details of sale to/purchase by Wine; and details of disposal by Wine

Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Abrahamson

Date and details of acquisition by Drown

WTEWAEL

'The Judgement of Paris'

Bequeathed to NG, by Claude Dickason Rotch, 1962

NG6334

Provenance

Leslie Hand; *

Ronald A. Lee (D), London; *

Claude Dickason Rotch, London; *

Questions 1933-1945

Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Hand

Ditto Lee

Date and details of acquisition by Rotch

ZURBARÁN

'A Cup of Water and a Rose'

Bought for the National Gallery by the George Beaumont Group, 1997

NG6566

Provenance

With Linares (D), Madrid;* from whom acquired by

Tomás Harris (D), London, in the early 1930s;*

Sir Kenneth Clark KCB (later Lord Clark of Saltwood) by 1937;*

the Saltwood Heritage Foundation;

bought for The National Gallery by the George Beaumont Group, 1997.

Questions 1933-1945

Confirmation of date of acquisition by Tomás Harris;

if necessary, earlier provenance including date and details of acquisition by Linares.

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*Early provenances for pictures are not given. NG numbers are inventory numbers. (D) signifies dealer.