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Creator:
Paul van Somer, born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1577; active in the Netherlands, Belgium, and England; died in London, England, 1622
Title:
A Girl, Probably Cecilia Egerton [2025, YCBA]
Former Title(s):

An Unknown Young Girl [2024, YCBA]

A Young Girl
Date:
1617
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
25 3/4 × 20 inches (65.4 × 50.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Label on verso, lower center: “Pitt & Scott Ltd | London | F. [handwritten] 4002 | #187 | [typed] 3576”; center: "8622"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1973.1.57
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:
B1973.1.57FR
Subject Terms:
child | costume | girl | Jacobean | jewelry | oval | portrait
Associated People:
Egerton, Cecilia (1607–26), daughter of John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater and Frances Stanley, Countess of Bridgewater
Access:
Not on view
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:151
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The sitter wears on her bodice an oval jewel forming the crowned cipher "S," which (being the first letter of the name of Sophie of Mecklenburg, King James I's mother-in-law, the mother of his queen, Anne of Denmark) had strong royal connotations in Jacobean England.

Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2005

Art in Focus: Gazes Returned (Yale Center for British Art, 2012-04-13 - ) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 210-211, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Gazes returned, the technical examination of early English panel painting , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2012, cover, pp. 9, 15-19, figs. 8-12;cover, V2415 (YCBA [ORBIS]

Sotheby's sale catalogue : Catalogue of old master paintings : 16 January 1963, Sotheby's, p. 30, Lot 169, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)

Edward Town, The portraits of Alice Spencer, Countess of Derby, and her family by Paul van Somer, Burlington Magazine, v. 167, April 2025, p. 378, N1 B87 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]

Ian Tyers, The tree-ring analysis of 23 panel paintings from the Yale Center for British Art , New Haven : dendrochronological consultancy report 470, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2011, pp. 15, 16, 17, 26-28, fig. 7, CC78.3 .T94 2011 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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