With Gallery Tillou, Litchfield, Connecticut, 1968;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 13 July 1979, lot 111, where purchased (or shortly thereafter) by the late father of present owners.

T. Beherman, Godfried Schalcken, Paris 1988, p. 200, cat. no. 99, reproduced.

Godfried Schalcken trained as an artist in Leiden under Gerrit Dou and went on to spend the early years of his career as an independent artist in Dordrecht where, after Nicolaes Maes' departure to Amsterdam, he became the most sought after portrait painter. It is during this period that he became internationally famous for his subtle rendering of various kinds of natural and artificial light. In May 1692 Godfried Schacken moved his family to London where they remained until the summer of 1696. In England he painted mainly portraits and candle lit scenes. This endearing portrait of Anne Conslade is dated to this English period by Beherman in his 1988 catalogue raisonné of Schalcken's works. The orange is a symbol of fertility, and so one can suppose that this portrait pre-empted the marriage of the young sitter. The orange was also a sign of wealth: the fruit was loved by the English gentry and was grown in many country houses which will each have required a greenhouse to maintain the trees through winter.

Please note that this lot will be included in the forthcoming publicatioℱn by Wayne E. Franits, on Schalcken in London.