Artist: Andrew Geddes (1783-1844) after studio of Anthony van Dyck, printed by Ernest Stephen Lumsden (1883-1948)
Title: Portrait of the Infanta Clara Eugenia
Date: 1826 (later printing by Lumsden)
School: British, Scottish, XIXth-century
Medium: drypoint on laid paper, printed with plate tone
Dimensions: 230 x 153mm (plate), 269 x 201mm (sheet)
Watermark: <<HN>> see image below
Inscriptions/marks: in the plate top left <<Infanta Isabella>>, in the plate lower left <<17>>, on the support lower left border in pencil <<Infanta Isabella>>
Condition: fine condition
Description: Head of Infanta Clara Eugenia in the habit of the Order of St Clare. After a portrait once attributed to Anthony van Dyck, now ascribed to his studio which Geddes owned, see Smailes reference, pp. 49-50. This is the fifth or later state printed by Lumsden.
Reference: Campbell Dodgson, The Etchings of Sir David Wilkie & Andrew Geddes, London: The Print Collectors Club, 1936, 46. Helen Smailes, Andrew Geddes 1783-1844 Painter-Printmaker ‘A Man of Pure Taste’, Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, 2001, p. 132 [107]
