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 31 March 2008, 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 lad@ng-london.org.uk.
*Early provenances for pictures are not given. NG numbers are inventory numbers. (D) signifies dealer.
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
1940 presented to NG by Mrs R.F.P. Blennerhassett
NG5115
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;
Confirmation of date of acquisition by F.W.H. Myers
Bought 1998
NG 6572
Ruef, Munich, 14/15 December 1989*
Private collection
bought by NG 1998
Provenance prior to 1989
Bequeathed to NG 1960 by Mrs E.M.E. Commeline
NG6308
Col. C.E. Commeline*
Passed to Mrs E.M.E. Commeline;
Provenance details 1933-1945?
Date acquired by Col. Commeline.
Bought by NG from Agnew's, London, 1961
NG6316
Christie's. London, 20 March 1959;
Agnew's (D), London
From whom purchased by NG, 1961
Provenance prior to 1959.
Purchased by NG, 1985
NG6501
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
Provenance before 1984. E.g. when bought or sold by private collector
Acquired in 2001 with a grant from the American Friends
NG 6585-6588
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.
Who bought them at the sale in 1902?
Date of acquisition by General Théodule Goffinet or Jeanne Quairier, and from whom acquired.
Bequeathed to the NG by Capt. Edward George Spencer-Churchill, 1964
NG6358
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
Date of acquisition by the Misses Blencowe (and, if necessary, earlier provenance back to 1933).
74 x 59cm.
Bought by NG from Galleria Sangiorgi (D), Rome, 1934
NG 4744
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.
Confirmation of date and place of sale?
Sold to Galleria Sangiorgia?
Bequeathed to NG by Edward Speelman (D) in 1994.
NG6549
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
Whereabouts and provenance until post WWII?
Source for information about Switzerland?
Provenance between post 1945 and 1960's?
Bought by NG at Sotheby's 1965
NG 6374
Willy Blumenthal, Paris;*
Forsyth Wickes, Newport, Mass;*
J. Mackower by 1954; his sale Sotheby's, London, 24 March 1965.*
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.
Bequeathed to the NG by Kenneth Levy 1958
NG6530
Drouot auction, Paris, 17 June 1921;*
Marlborough Fine Art (D), London;*
Kenneth Levy, London, 1958;
Bequeathed to NG, 1990
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?
Bequeathed to NG by Jeffery Daniels 1986.
NG6506
Mr & Mrs Paul Ganz, USA, by 1972;*
Jeffery Daniels, London;
bequeathed to NG, 1986
Provenance prior to acquisition by Ganz
Details of acquisition by Ganz
Bequeathed by Sir Arthur Jackson to NG 1940
NG5174
Rayner MacConnal (D), London;*
Sir Arthur Jackson, UK;*
bequeathed to NG, 1940
Provenance prior to MacConnal
Details and date of acquisition/disposal by MacConnal
Provenance between MacConnal and Jackson
Details and date of acquisiton by Jackson
Bought by the NG from Agnew's (D) London, 1966
NG6377
Arthur Leonard Nicholson, London;*
Bonhams, 19 August 1965;*
Agnew's (D), London;
purchased by NG, 1966
Provenance prior to Nicholson
Details and date of acquisition/disposal by Nicholson
Nicholson sold through Bonham's 1965?
23 x 15cm.
Bought by the NG from Edward Speelman (D), London, 1987
NG6514
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
Bought by the NG 1970 from Major A.E. Allnatt
NG6389
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
Provenance prior to Swiss Private collection,
date of acquisition
Presented to NG by Count Allessandro Contini-Bonacossi in 1935
NG4778
Ettore Sestieri (D), Rome, 1921;
Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, by 1934;*
presented by him to NG, 1935
Provenance between Sestieri and Contini-Bonacossi
Date and details of acquisition by Contini-Bonacossi.
Gift of Kate de Rothschild, 1999
NG 6578
Christie's, South Kensington, 16 April, 1997
Mark Brady, New York
Kate de Rothschild, London
Provenance prior to 1997. (This and other Cels oil sketches are unrecorded before they appeared at auction as a single lot in 1997)
Bought by NG from Jacques Seligmann (D), 1957.
NG6276
Auction, Paris, 22 May 1919 to Reginald Rives;
Auction, Paris, 24 December 1948;*
Jacques Seligmann (D), New York;
Purchased by NG, 1957
Confirm date and details of disposal by Rives
Provenance between Rives and auction of 1948
Details of vendor at auction 1948.
'Head of a Man in Red' and 'Head of a Man in Blue'
Bequeathed to NG by M.W. Jacobson, 1944
NG5468-9
Maurice Woolff Jacobson (D), Paris and London; *
bequeathed by Mr Jacobson to NG, 1944
Provenance prior to Jacobson
Details and date of acquisition by Jacobson
Bequeathed to NG by Elizabeth Carstairs, 1952
NG6160
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
Provenance prior to Carstairs
Date and details of acquisition by Carstairs
Work has Hebrew inscription on reverse
Bought by NG from Edward Spelman (D), 1978
NG6443
M.A. Mechen; *
Phillips, London, 14 March 1977*
Edward Speelman (D), London;
Purchased by NG, 1978
Provenance prior to Mechen
Details and date of acquisition by Mechen
Mechen sold through Phillips 1977?
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
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)
Provenance between Montaignac 1913 and Vagliano 1955
Presented to the NG in memory of R.E. Brandt by members of his family, 1963
NG 6339
Emile Duhousset by 1905;*
given in memory of Rudolph Ernst Brandt by members of his family in 1963.*
Date of disposal by Duhousset
Provenance between disposal by Duhousset and 1963.
Details and date of acquisition by Brandt family
28 x 40cm.
Bought by the NG from Daber (D)), Paris, 1977
NG6439
Tony Mayer, France, 1949;*
Daber (D), Paris;*
Purchased by NG, 1977
Provenance prior to Mayer
Details and dates of acquisition by Mayer
Confirm Mayer sold to Daber, and date
Presented to NG by Mrs Alice Bleecker, 1981
NG6466
Monsieur Surville;*
Rudolph Ernst Brandt, London;*
Mrs Alice Bleecker;*
Presented to NG, 1981
Provenance prior to Surville
Details of acquisition and disposal by Surville
Ditto Brandt
Details of acquisition by Mrs Alice Bleecker.
Bequeathed to NG by Kenneth Levy, 1990
NG6531
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
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
Bought by NG from Arthur Tooth (D), 1951
NG5983
Latouche, before 1920s;*
Owned by Daber (D), Paris, 1949;*
Bought from Daber by Arthur Tooth (D), London;
Purchased by NG, 1951
Date and details of disposal by Latouche
Provenance between Latouche 1920's and Daber 1949
Date and details of acquisition by Daber
Bequeathed to NG by Sir Robert Hart, 1971
NG6396
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
Provenance prior to Jacques Dubourg
Details and date of acquisition by ditto
81 x 55cm.
Bought by the NG from E & A Silbermann (D), 1963
NG6344
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
Confirm details and date of acquisition by Adolf Hitler
Confirm details and date of acquisition by Mrs Hartwell
Bought by NG from Colnaghi's (D) 1963
NG6345
Balboni (D), Rome from whom bought by *
Colnaghi's (D), London. 1963
Provenance prior to Balboni
Details and date of acquisition by Balboni;
104 x 98 cm.
Bought by NG from Harry Walston, 1959
NG6295
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;
Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Lefevre
Confirm date of acquisition by Walston
Bought by NG from Daber (D), 1976
NG6433
Baron Denys Cochin, Paris, 1910;
Jules Strauss sale, Paris*, George Petit, 15 Dec. 1932;
Bought by Henri Duboix;*
Daber (D), Paris; *
Provenance between 1910 and 1932
Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Strauss
Confirmation that Duboix bought from Petit, and date
Date of disposal by Duboix
Date of acquisition by Daber.
Bought by the NG from St. Just Fine Arts, London, 1996.
NG6562
Private collector, France;*
Loudmer, Paris, 19 December 1994;
St Just Fine Arts, London;
Any provenance details required prior to 1994.
Bought by NG at Christies, 1979
NG6454
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);
Details of acquisition by Howard
Details of purchaser, 1935
Details of disposal by Fauteil
Provenance between ownership by Fauteil and acquisition by Schapiro
117 x 92 cm.
Bought by NG from Gooden & Fox (D), 1991.
NG6523
Walmesley, UK, 1889;
private collection, Buenos Aires;*
Sotheby's. NY, 2 June 1989;
Hazlitt. Gooden & Fox (D), London;
Provenance between 1889 and 1989
Details of private collector and acquisition.
Given to the NG by Mrs Linda Murray in memory of her husband, through the NACF, 1996.
NG 6564
With S. Wells, Richmond, Yorks. in 1902;*
Bought by Professor Peter and Mrs Linda Murray, Christie's, London, 9 May 1958;*
Details of sale by Wells
Provenance between 1902-1958
Details of seller at Christies, 1958.
Bequeathed to NG by Mr M. W. Jacobson, 1947
NG5762
Maurice Woolff Jacobson (D), Paris and London, 1944;†*
Provenance prior to 1944
Confirmation of details of acquisition by Jacobson
Recovered in France, Jacobson is believed to have acquired it in Paris
Bought by NG from Colnaghi's (D), 1944
NG5448
Lord Boston, Hedsor, Bucks;*
His executors' sale , Christie's, London, 6 March 1942;*
Leger (D), London;*
Colnaghi's (D), London; *
Details of acquisition by Boston
32 x 45cm.
Bought at Christie's, Monaco, 1987
NG6517
Private collection Paris, 1982;*†
Christie's, Monaco, 7 December 1987,*
Any provenance details prior to 1982
Details of acquisition and disposal by private collector
Provenance details between 1982 and 1987
Details of vendor 1987.
Possibly a Russian prince from the family of Prince Gregorii Grehorevich Gagarin.
Bequeathed to NG by Claude Dickason Rotch, 1962.
NG6335
Claude Dickason Rotch, London, by 1953;*
Details and Date of acquisition by Rotch
Bought by the NG from Hildegard Fritz-Denneville Fine Arts, 1989
NG6524
Ernst-Jürgen Otto, Berlin, until c.1950;*
Private collection, Munich;
Hildegard Fritz- Denneville Fine Arts, London;
Details and date of acquisition by Otto, and confirmation of date of sale.
Bought by NG from Matthiesen (D), 1954
NG6229
Bought in Brussels (unattributed) by Herbert Bier, 1954;*
Matthiesen (D), London, 1954; purchased by NG, 1954
Provenance before Bier
Confirmation of date and details of acquisition by Bier
Bought by NG from Matthiesen Fine Art (D), 1987
NG6515-6
Private collection, Rome;*
Colnaghi's (D), London, 1975;*
Private collection, Switzerland;
Matthiesen Fine Art (D), London, 1986;
Details and dates of possession by Private collector in Rome
Details of vendor from Colnaghi's 1975 sale.
Bought by NG from Colnaghi's (D), 1962
NG 6327
Florentine dealer, Salvatore Romano pre-1939;*
Carlo Sestieri, Rome; from whom bought c.1961-2 by*
Colnaghi's (D), London*
Dates and details of acquisition and disposal by Salvatore Romano
Details and details of aquisition by Sestieri
275 x 366cm.
Bought by NG from Matthiesen Fine Art (D), 1983.
NG6487
Christie's, London, 12 December 1980;*
Matthiesen Fine Art (D), London; as from a European collector
Provenance prior to 1980
Details of vendor, 1980
Presented to NG by Alice Bleecker, 1981.
NG6464
Rudolph Ernst Brandt, London;*
Alice Bleecker, *
Details and dates of acquisition and disposal by Brandt
Date and details of Acquisition by Bleecker
Bought by NG, 1985
NG 6500
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.*
Provenance prior to Elias
Date and details of acquisition by Elias.
Bequeathed to the NG by Charles and Elizabeth Carstairs, 1952
NG6156-7
Sabin, 1911;*
Charles and Elizabeth Carstairs, London and NY;*
Date and details of disposal by Sabin
Date and details of acquisition by Carstairs
Bequeathed to the NG by Claude Dickason Rotch, 1962.
NG6336
Claude Dickason Rotch, London;*
Provenance prior to acquisition by Rotch
Details and dates of acquisition by Rotch
Bequeathed to the NG by Kenneth Levy, 1990.
NG6529
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;*
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
Bought by NG at Sotheby's, 1986
NG6507
Th. Lyngby (D), Copenhagen, 1912;*
Hans Tobiesen, Copenhagen. 1944;*
Winkel and Magnussen auction, Copenhagen, October 1953;*
Bogh Andersen;
Sotheby's, London, 17 June 1986;
Date and details of disposal by Lyngby
Date and details of acquisition and disposal by Tobiesen
Details of vendor 1953.
Bought by NG at Christie's, 1993.
NG6542
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
Date and details of disposal by Grosell
Date and details of acquisition and disposal by Bruhn
Details of vendor 1959
Bequeathed to the NG by Miss I. M. Hawkins Turner, London, 1982
NG6472
Miss I. M Hawkins Turner, London, by1982 *
Date and details of acquisition by Miss I. M. Hawkins Turner
103 x 113cm.
Bequeathed to NG by F.F. Madan, 1961
NG6329
André Seligmann (D), Paris, by 1937;* From whom bought by
Francis Falconer Madan, London, 1938;*
bequeathed by him, 1961
Details and dates of acquisition/disposal by Seligmann
Bequeathed to the NG by Sir Bernard Eckstein, 1948
NG5867-70
Christie's, London, 22 February 1935;* where bought by
Vicars;*
Sir Bernard Eckstein, London*
Details of Vendor 1935,
Confirm details and date of disposal by Vicars
Confirm date and details of acquisition by Eckstein
Presented to the NG by Julius Weitzner in 1957
NG6272
Max Koetser (D), London;*
Christie's, London, 3 May 1957;*
Doward;
Julius Weitzner, NY;
Date and details of acquisition by Koetser
Confirm details of vendor 1957
Presented to the NG by Mrs. H. W. Rawlinson, 1963
NG6346
Arnold & Tripp (D), Paris; *
Mrs H.W. Rawlinson; *
Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Arnold & Tripp
Date and details of acquisition by Rawlinson
On the reverse is a label reading 'Megret'
Bought by the NG from Colnaghi's (D), 1959
NG6299
Hender Delves Molesworth, London, 1957; *
Colnaghi's (D), London;
Date and details of acquisition by Molesworth and, (if necessary) further provenance back to 1933.
Bequeathed to the NG by C.F. Leach, 1943
NG5417
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;
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
Transferred from Tate to NG, 1956
NG5568
Christie's, unknown date; *
Frank Claughton Mathews, Hampshire; *
Mary James Mathews; *
bequeathed to Tate Gallery, 1944;
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
Bought by NG at Christie's, 1984.
NG6497
Christie's, London, 14 December 1984;*
Provenance details prior to 1984
Details of vendor 1984.
Presented to NG by Mrs Alice Bleecker, 1981
NG6468
Rudolph Ernst Brandt, London;*
Mrs Alice Bleecker; *
Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Brandt
Date and details of acquisition by Bleecker
Bought by NG from Philip Pouncey, 1993
NG6546
S. Isepp, by 1949; *
Mrs S. Isepp;
Sotheby's, 26 June 1957;
Philip Pouncey, London;
Date and details of acquisition by Isepp
Bequeathed to NG by Sir Victor Wellesley, 1954
NG6253
Mrs Bloomfield Moore, Philadelphia, 1901; *
Fine Art Society (D), London, 1938; * From whom bought that year by
Sir Victor Wellesley, UK; *
Date and details of disposal by Bloomfield Moore
Details and date of acquisition by FAS
Bequeathed to NG by C.F. Leach, 1943
NG5416
Auction, London, 12 June 1931;*
Leyman,*
C.F Leach, Surrey, by 1941; *
Details of purchaser 1931
Details and date of acquisition/disposal by Leyman
Date of acquisition by Leach
Bequeathed to NG by Sir Robert Hart, 1971
NG6395
Laederich; *
Turckheim; *
Galerie Lorençeau (Paris?) 1955 *
Arthur Tooth (D), London, 1955
Sir Robert Hart, London, 1955 (within a few months);
Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Laederich
Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Terckheim
Date and details of acquisition by Galerie Lorencau
Bequeathed to NG by Major the Hon. J.J. Astor MP, 1971
NG6399
Stored with Cassirer (D), Berlin;
Seized by the German Government, 1914; *
Dr. Alfred Gold (D), Berlin;
Bought from him in March 1936 by Arthur Tooth (D), London;
Sold to Major the Hon. J.J. Astor MP, March 1936;
Provenance after 1914
Date and details of acquisition by Gold
Acquired through Sotheby's by NG, 1996
NG6565
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);
Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Wildenstein
Given to NG by Emilie Yznaga (d. 1944) in 1937 subject to her life interest, 1945
NG5587
Possibly Consuelo, Duchess of Manchester, UK, until 1909;*
Recorded in the collection of Emilie Yznaga (sister of Duchess), Paris in 1936; *
Confirm details of acquisition by Emilie Yznaga
Presented to NG by Mrs E. Antal, 1955.
NG6254
Ernst Remak, Berlin, 1920s; *
Dealer in Rome; *
Frederick Antal, Rome and London; *
Date and details of disposal by Remak
Source and details of Dealer in Rome
Date and details of acquisition by Antal
Bequeathed to NG by Nona Ann, Lady Colman of Middleton Manor, Wilts., 1985
NG6498
Lady Colman, UK by 1985; *
Date and details of acquisition by Lady Coleman
presented to NG by Violet Churchman, 1988
NG6520
Sir William Churchman, Suffolk, by 1947*
Date and details of acquisition by Sir William Churchman
Bought by NG from F.A. Drey, 1942.
NG5362
Du Cane, Braxted Park, Essex;*
Auction, London, 30 April 1942; *
F.A. Drey;
Date and details of acquisition by Du Cane
Details of Vendor and purchaser 1942
Bought by NG from Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox (D), 1983
NG6489
Christie's, London, 24 March 1922; *
Bertram Bell, Dublin; *
Christie's, London, 2 December 1983; *
Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox (D), London;
Confirm purchaser 1922
Provenance between 1922-1983
Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Bell
Details of vendor 1983
Bought by NG from Didier Aaron (D), NY 1988
NG6513
Christie's, Bologna, 27-8 September 1986;*
Didier Aaron (D), NY;
Provenance pre-1986
Details of vendor 1986
Bequeathed to NG by Claude Dickason Rotch, 1962
NG6332
Claude Dickason Rotch, London, 1950's *
Provenance pre-1950's
Date and details of acquisition by Rotch
Bought by NG from Michael Simpson (D), 1995
NG6551-2
Private collection, France; from which sold at auction,
Japhet, Nice, 15 December 1994; *
Michael Simpson (D), London;
Dates and details of vendor 1994 and (if necessary) prior provenance back to 1933
92 x 73cm.
Bought by NG from Marlborough Fine Art (D), 1979
NG6449
Count Etienne de Beaumont, Paris; *
Marlborough Fine Art (D), 1979; *
Date and details of acquisition/disposal by de Beaumont
Vendor 1979
Bought by NG from Dr Vitale Bloch (D), 1966
NG6372
Gerace, Naples, before 1959; *
Dr Vitale Bloch (D);
Date and details of acquisition by Gerace
Bought by NG from Salzer, Vienna, 1937
NG4884.1-2
Count Luigi da Porto, Vicenza, until 1936; *
Podio, Venice; *
Salzer, Vienna; *
Date and details of acquisition by da Porto
64 x 91cm.
Bought by NG from Marlborough Fine Art (D), 1977
NG6438
Mme. Mottart; *
sold Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 8 Feb. 1945; *
César de Hauke, 1948;
Mr & Mrs Albert D. Lasker, USA;
Marlborough Fine Art (D), London;
Details of acquisition and disposal by Mottart
Confirm vendor 1945
Bought by NG from Lefevre (D), 1951
NG5982
Raphaël Gerard, Paris, 1927; *
Sir Victor Schuster, London, by 1942; *
Lefevre (D), London, by 1948; *
Date and details of disposal by Gerard
Provevance between 1927 - 1942
Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Schuster
Date and details of acquisition by Lefevre
Bequeathed to NG by Kenneth Levy, 1990
NG6528
Bought in 1935 from A.N. Whyte by Reid & Lefevre (D), by whom sold to *
Kenneth Levy, London; 1936 *
Provenance pre- 1935
Date and details of acquisition by A.N. Whyte
Bought by NG from Heim (D), 1975
NG6428
Mme. Gosset, 1917; *
Vicomtesse de Fontanges; *
Heim (D), London; *
Details and date of disposal by Gosset
Details and date of acquisition/disposal by de Fontanges
Details and date of acquisition by Heim
Given to NG by Emilie Yznaga, (d.1944) in 1937, subject to her life interest
NG5588
Possibly Consuelo, Duchess of Manchester, UK, until 1909; *
Emilie Yznaga (sister of Duchess), Paris by 1937; *
Confirm details and date of acquisition by Yznaga
Presented to the NG by Mr. Edwin Bucher, 1991
NG 6537
Mr Edwin Bucher by 1991*
Date and details of acquisition by Bucher
Bought by Private Treaty sale from an English private collection, November 2000.
NG6584
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.
Provenance pre-1965
Date and details of acquisition by Moratilla
Inscribed on the reverse: Jacopo da Pontormo / Florence. 1540 (ie. formerly attributed to Pontormo)
Bought by NG from Mrs R. Savage, 1966
NG6379
Coulter, York, between 1934-40; *
Robert Savage, Northampton; *
Mrs Savage;
Provenance pre-1934
Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Coulter
Date and details of acquisition by Robert Savage
label with the name 'Ballen' on the reverse.
Bequeathed to NG by Alan Newton Aidan Evans 1974
NG6425
Christies, London, 22 June 1925, sold to 'Evans'
Alan Newton Aidan Evans, London by 1974*
Confirm identity of 'Evans' at 1925 sale
Date and details of acquisition by A.N.A. Evans
Purchase, 2000
NG 6582
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
Provenance before about 1960
bequeathed to NG, 1978 by Benedict Nicolson
NG6446
Vitale Bloch (D); *
Benedict Nicolson, London, 1954; *
Provenance prior to Bloch
Date and details of acquisition by Bloch
Confirm date of acquisition by Nicolson
purchased by NG from French & Co. (D), 1997
NG6570
Herr Hofr. Carus; *
Private collection, US;*
Sotheby's, NY, 24 October 1996; *
French & Co (D), NY;
Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Carus
Date and details of acquisition/disposal by private collector
Details of vendor 1996
Transferred to NG from Tate Gallery 1944
NG5465
Frederick Cavendish; *
presented to Tate Gallery, 1944;*
Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Cavendish
Confirm presented to Tate by Cavendish
purchased by NG from Heim (D), 1971
NG6397
Heim (D), London; *
Provenance prior to Heim
Date and details of acquisition by Heim
Bequeathed to NG by Sir Philip Hendy, 1989
NG6521
Maratilla (D), Italy; *
Colnaghi's (D), London, 1964; *
Sir Philip Hendy, London;.
Provenance prior to Maratilla
Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Maratilla
Confirm date of acquisition by Colnaghi's
Bought by NG from Malcolm Waddingham (D), 1961
N6321
Private collection, England, 1930s; *
Malcolm Waddingham (D), UK; *
Details of private collector and date of disposal
Date acquired by Waddingham and details of vendor
Acquired by the National Gallery under the Acceptance-in-Lieu Scheme in 2002
NG 6592
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.
Provenance between 1845 and 1957
For whom acquired, or to whom sold, by Colombo
Date of acquisition by Naylor-Leyland family
Bought by NG FROM Heim (D), 1974
NG6426
Alfred Olsen, Copenhagen; *,
his estate's sale, Rasmussen auction, Copenhagen, 2 December 1954; *
Rasmussen auction, Copenhagen, 8 October 1964;
Heim (D), London;
Date and details of acquisition by Olsen
Bought by NG from Rosenberg & Stiebel , 1960
NG6302-5
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; *
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.
Bought by NG at Christie's, 1982.
NG6476
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;
Date and details of acquisition by Richard Green.
Provenance before 1964
Bought by NG from Eugene Slatter (D), 1957
NG6269
J.H. Hunter BY 1956 *
Sotheby's,London, 4 July 1956;
Eugene Slatter (D), London;
Date and details acquired by Hunter
Presented to NG by Alice Bleecker, 1981
NG6465
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;
Provenance prior to 1942-1947
Confirmation of work being offered at Basel, early 1940's
Date and details of acquisition by Ruzicka, if confirmed
presented to NG by Count Antoine Seilern, 1945
NG5633
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; *
Confirm sale to Roper
Date and details of acquisition by Seilern
Purchased by NG from Angus Bainbridge, 1967
NG6380
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;
Date and details of acquisition by Campbell
Bequeathed to NG by Sir Bernard Eckstein, 1948
NG5871
Féral (D), 1930; *
A.J. Sulley (D), London;
* his estate sale Christie's, London, 1 June 1934; * bought by
Fuller; *
Sir Bernard Eckstein, London; *
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.
Bought by NG through Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, ?1982
NG 6475
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
Details of auction 1930
purchased by NG from François Heim (D), 1958
NG6292
Anon. Sale, Boisgirard, Paris, 1957 *
bought by François Heim (D), Paris;
Provenance prior to 1957
Details of vendor 1957
Bought by NG from, César de Hauke, 1966
NG6373 (originally part of same work as NG6388)
Madame Claude Anet; *
R. Gerard, France, 1936; *
Alfred Daber (D), Paris; *
César de Hauke; *
Details and date of acquisition and disposal by Anet
Ditto Gerard
Ditto Daber
Confirm date and details of acquisition by de Hauke
Bought by NG from Major A.E. Allnatt, 1970
NG6388 (originally part of same work as NG6373)
Madame Claude Anet; *
R. Gerard, France, 1936; *
Alfred Daber (D), Paris; *
Major A.E. Allnatt *
Details and date of acquisition and disposal by Anet
Ditto Gerard
Ditto Daber
Confirm date and details of acquisition by Allnatt
Bought by NG from Mrs Gifford-Scott, 1980
NG6462
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's 16 July 1980, (Lot 11) *
Mrs Gifford-Scott, Surrey by 1980 *
Vendor 1980
Provenance prior to Gifford-Scott
Date and details of acquisition by Gifford-Scott
purchased by NG from W.R. Drown, 1956
NG6263
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; *
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
Bequeathed to NG, by Claude Dickason Rotch, 1962
NG6334
Leslie Hand; *
Ronald A. Lee (D), London; *
Claude Dickason Rotch, London; *
Date and details of acquisition/disposal by Hand
Ditto Lee
Date and details of acquisition by Rotch
*Early provenances for pictures are not given. NG numbers are inventory numbers. (D) signifies dealer.