Portrait of a Woman

ArtistCircle of Marcus Gheeraerts (British, born Bruges, 1561–1636)

Datecirca 1610

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions79 7/8 x 47 3/8 in. (202.9 x 120.3 cm)
Frame: 89 x 56 1/2 x 1 3/4 in. (226.1 x 143.5 x 4.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. James MacLamroc

Object numberGL.67.13.1

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Provenance[All Balliol Scott family property, presumed to include the NCMA’s eight “Scott” portraits, pass through various branches of the family of Scots’ Hall, Smeeth, Kent, England]; George Scott (1673–1728); by descent to Edward Scott (1710–1765), Scot’s Hall, Smeeth, ca. 1728: by descent to Francis Talbot Scott (1745–1789), 1765; Scott family portraits are transferred to Caroline Scott (1751–1809) and her husband George Best (1760–1818), Chilston Park, Kent, England, ca. 1784–1795; by descent to Thomas Fairfax Best (1786-1849) and Margaret Anna Brett Best (d. 1882), London, Chilston Park, and Weirton Park, Boughton Monchelsea, Staplehurst, Kent, 1818; by descent to Frances Best and her husband, Major William Henry Archer, 1882; by descent to their son Major Henry Alan Fairfax Best Archer and his wife, Catherine Maria Scott; paintings sold to Sir Edward Arthur Barry (1858–1949), who married Scott descendent Eleanor Margaret Scott (d. 1916), Ockwells Manor, Berkshire, England, between 1891 and 1916; paintings sold to Colonel Frank Douglas Scott, Sir Edward Arthur Barry allows the portraits to remain at Ockwells Manor, Berkshire, England, 1947; sold to James G. W. MacLamroc, Greensboro, NC, 1965 [portraits come directly to NCMA in June 1965]; given to NCMA, 1969. [PDF of Unedited Provenance notes is attached to this TMS record.]