Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art

1979, Indiana University Art Museum purchase from Richard J. Collins, Inc., Old Master Paintings and Drawings, New York, NY

December 1978–April 16, 1979, Richard J. Collins, Inc., Old Master Paintings and Drawings, New York, NY purchase from John Hardy, London, England [1]

?–1978, with John Hardy, London, England [2]

?–1909, Collection of Lord Amherst of Hackney, England [3]

Notes:

[1] Purchase from Hardy noted in the invoice from dealer Richard J. Collins. Collins provides no additional information on Hardy other than his location, given as London.

[2] Further research is advisable to ascertain with complete certainty whether this is the London scholar-collector John Hardy, a noted expert in English furniture and decorative arts who worked at the Victoria & Albert Museum before joining Christie’s as a consultant in the 1980s. [“Scholar-Collector John Hardy’s historic pieces for sale at Christies,” The Art Newspaper, 30 April 2014]

[3] Per Collins dealer’s invoice. This is likely the first Lord of Hackney, William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst (1835–1909), whose famous collection of rare books and art was once one of the largest and most distinguished collections in England. Amhurst was forced to sell off large parts of his library due to fraudulent transactions made by his attorney, but the rest of his collection remained with him intact until his death in 1909.

Provenance research is ongoing for this and many other items in the Eskenazi Museum of Art permanent collection. For more information about the provenance of this artwork, please contact the department curator with specific questions.

October 25, 2014–January 25, 2015, Renaissance Drawings from Private Antwerp Collections, Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp, Belgium

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