Lot Essay
The picture is recorded as having previously born an inscription 'AET. SVAE 35 A. 1604'.
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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
English School, circa 1604
Portrait of a Gentleman, previously identified as Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, three-quarter-length, in a white doublet, with a brown and gold embroidered jerkin and pantaloons, his left hand on his sword, beside a table
Details
English School, circa 1604
Portrait of a Gentleman, previously identified as Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, three-quarter-length, in a white doublet, with a brown and gold embroidered jerkin and pantaloons, his left hand on his sword, beside a table
oil on panel
46 x 36¼ in. (116.8 x 92 cm.)
Portrait of a Gentleman, previously identified as Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, three-quarter-length, in a white doublet, with a brown and gold embroidered jerkin and pantaloons, his left hand on his sword, beside a table
oil on panel
46 x 36¼ in. (116.8 x 92 cm.)
Provenance
Louis Huth (+); Christie's, 20 May 1905, lot 138, as of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (40 gns. to Carfax).
Oliver Vernon Watney, Cornbury Park, Oxon., 1915, no. 84.
Oliver Vernon Watney, Cornbury Park, Oxon., 1915, no. 84.