Keywords: Judith Leyster - Self-Portrait - Google Art Project.jpg Assessments 1 Judith Leyster Google Art Project Q18888002 Creator Judith Leyster other date ~ 1630 cm 74 6 65 1 provenanceEvent gift Mr and Mrs Robert Woods Bliss <gallery> Self-portrait by Judith Leyster jpg Judith Leyster - Zelfportret jpg Judith Leyster Self Portrait jpg Judith Leyster - Self-Portrait - WGA12959 jpg </gallery> Netherlands Haarlem 1609 Netherlands Heemstede 1660 Judith female 717625 Leyster Dutch 1609 - 1660 /collection/national-gallery-of-art-washington-dc/artwork/self-portrait-judith-leyster/717626/ 37003 Judith Leyster artist /artist/judith-leyster/4131224/ 4131224 /collection/national-gallery-of-art-washington-dc/ National Gallery of Art Washington DC 507112 http //www nga gov/ 1/25/2012 9 59 13 PM /collection/national-gallery-of-art-washington-dc/artwork/self-portrait-judith-leyster/717626/ 1630 c 1630 Dutch portrait self oil on canvas Possibly the painting in four London sales between 1810 and 1812 1 E M Grainger Hastings Sussex sale Christie Manson Woods London 16 April 1926 no 115 ; purchased by E Smith probably for a London dealer 2 private collection New York in 1928 3 Ehrich Galleries New York ; purchased 9 May 1929 by Mr and Mrs Robert Woods Bliss Washington D C ;4 gift 1949 to NGA 1 Burton Fredericksen in a letter of 12 December 2002 to Arthur Wheelock in NGA curatorial files suggests that the NGA painting is possibly the one described as a portrait by Frans Hals of his daughter sitting at her easel that appeared at a series of four sales in London between 1810 and 1812 Fredericksen writes that the lack of recorded dimensions the low price at which the painting was bought in and the fact that it was part of a group of minor paintings prevent a firm conclusion although paintings by Hals did not bring high prices at the beginning of the nineteenth century For the first three sales the painting was described as <i>The Portrait of F Hals' Daughter</i> by F Hals; for the fourth sale it was <i>The Painter's Daughter at her easel</i> also by Hals The sales are as follows consigned by a Dr Biam or Byam along with four other paintings to Christie's London 7 July 1810 no 161 bought in; the same consignor to Christie's London 8 March 1811 no 65 bought in; consigned by Pritchard to Christie's London 19 April 1811 no 157; anonymous consignor to Peter Coxe London 3 June 1812 no 28 bought in 2 Information on this purchaser is from an annotated copy of the 1926 sale catalogue and various articles in London papers giving the sale results; copies in NGA curatorial files 3 The owner of the painting is identified in this way in Wilhelm R Valentiner Rediscovered Paintings by Frans Hals <i>Art in America</i> 16 1928 239 fig 2 4 The purchase date is in the donor's collection records for the painting in NGA curatorial files 746 717626 False 1630 c 1630 overall 3/24/2012 9 47 40 AM 1949 6 1 http //www nga gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f object 37003 National Gallery of Art Washington DC Gift of Mr and Mrs Robert Woods Bliss Painting 1630 1640 w651 x h746 cm c 1630 False 0 875 Object self-portrait-judith-leyster Self-Portrait s 651 oil on canvas Possibly the painting identified as a painting by Frans Hals depicting his daughter at the easel that appeared in four London sales between 1810 and 1812 <ref>This suggestion was made by Burton Fredericksen In a letter of 12 December 2002 to Arthur Wheelock in NGA curatorial files Fredericksen writes that the lack of recorded dimensions the low price at which the painting was bought in and the fact that it was part of a group of minor paintings prevent a firm conclusion although paintings by Hals did not bring high prices at the beginning of the nineteenth century For the first three sales the painting was described as The Portrait of F Hals' Daughter by F Hals; for the fourth sale it was The Painter's Daughter at her easel also by Hals The sales are as follows consigned by a Dr Biam or Byam along with four other paintings to Christie's London 7 July 1810 no 161 bought in; the same consignor to Christie's London 8 March 1811 no 65 bought in; consigned by Pritchard to Christie's London 19 April 1811 no 157; anonymous consignor to Peter Coxe London 3 June 1812 no 28 bought in </ref> E M Grainger Hastings Sussex; Mrs Granger Bexhil-on-Sea East Sussex;<ref>Lynda McLeod Librarian Christie ™s Archives kindly provided the name of the consignor; see her e-mail of 1 August 2012 in NGA curatorial files Despite the slight difference in the spelling of the last name E M Grainger and Mrs Granger were likely related </ref> sale Christie Manson Woods London 16 April 1926 no 115 ; purchased by E Smith probably for a London dealer <ref>Information on this purchaser is from an annotated copy of the 1926 sale catalogue and various articles in London papers giving the sale results; copies in NGA curatorial files </ref> private collection New York in 1928 <ref>The owner of the painting is identified in this way in Wilhelm R Valentiner Rediscovered Paintings by Frans Hals Art in America 16 1928 239 fig 2 </ref> Ehrich Galleries New York ; purchased 9 May 1929 by Mr and Mrs Robert Woods Bliss Washington D C ;<ref>The purchase date is in the donor's collection records for the painting in NGA curatorial files </ref> gift 1949 to NGA reflist Dutch portrait self special url_id AAHGrS6cvWhysw PD-old-100 1660 Self-portrait Judith Leyster Self Portrait Renaissance to Contemporary |