Stanhope and Broydon Collection

The Stanhope and Broydon Collection appears as a provenance mention for Jan Molenaer’s painting “Chanteur jouant de la guitarre”, as recorded in the Banque Dreyfus Inventory, tableau. no. 166: “Coll. Stanhope – Broydon”.    Initial research found a sale of Old Master paintings from the Henry Doetsch Collection, held at Christie, Manson & Woods in London on 22 June 1895. The entry for no. 376 “A Youth singing and playing the guitar” in the sale catalogue notes the provenance as being “from the Stanhope and Broydon Collection”   It is not clear to which member of the Stanhope family this mention could refer to. The Getty’s Collectors Files mention: John Montague Spencer-Stanhope (Cannon Hall, Yorkshire, active between 1860-19?), Charles Stanhope (active ca. 1760), Earl Stanhope (Chevening House, Kent), Lady Leicester Phillippa Stanhope (daughter of the Earl of Harrington) or Walter Spencer Stanhope (Cannon Hall, Yorkshire).       Links:   Catalogue of the Highly Important Collection of Pictures by Old Masters of Henry Doetsch, Esq. 1895. [about:blank https://archive.org/details/cathighl00chri/page/n8/mode/2up?q=Molenaer]