Portrait of a gentleman, previously identified as Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532/3-1588), three-quarter-length, in a white doublet, with a brown and gold embroidered jerkin and hose, his left hand on his sword, beside a table

Details

English School, circa 1604
Portrait of a gentleman, previously identified as Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532/3-1588), three-quarter-length, in a white doublet, with a brown and gold embroidered jerkin and hose, his left hand on his sword, beside a table
oil on panel
46 x 36½ in. (110.7 x 90.27 cm.)

Provenance

Louis Huth (+); Christie's, London, 20 May 1905, lot 138, as of 'Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester' (40 guineas to Carfax).
Oliver Vernon Watney, Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire, 1915, no. 84.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 11 July, 1997, lot 1 (sold £14,000).

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Lot Essay

Louis Huth (1813-1892), entrepreneur, merchant and public official, emigrated to Texas in 1843 from Antwerp. He established an important art collection and was a patron of James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903).

The picture is recorded as having previously born an inscription 'AET. SVAE 35 A. 1604'.

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