拍品 557
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MARGARET THOMAS, 19TH CENTURY, AFTER NICHOLAS HILLIARD
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MARGARET THOMAS, 19TH CENTURY, AFTER NICHOLAS HILLIARD

PORTRAIT OF THOMAS WEST, 3RD BARON DE LA WARR, BUST-LENGTH, IN A BLACK COAT

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MARGARET THOMAS, 19TH CENTURY, AFTER NICHOLAS HILLIARD
PORTRAIT OF THOMAS WEST, 3RD BARON DE LA WARR, BUST-LENGTH, IN A BLACK COAT
inscribed 'Thomas Lord De La Warr/Governor, Captain General/in Virginia/Copied by Margaret Thomas from/the original by Hilliard, in the/possession of Earl De La Warr/1882' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
22½ x 17½ in. (57 x 45 cm.);
together with a 19th Century portrait of Cardinal Pole (D.1557), by another hand.
two in the lot (2)
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Thomas West, 3rd Baron De la Warr (1577-1618) became the first colonial Governor of Virginia and landed in Jamestown in 1610. He returned to England the following year and published The Relation of the Right Honourable the Lord De la Warre, of the Colonie Planted in Virginia. He gave his name to the state, river and bay 'Delaware'. Thomas West was an ancestor of Elizabeth Sackville West, 9th Duchess of Bedford

Cardinal Pole (D. 1557) was the son of Sir Richard Pole and Margaret Plantagenet, later Countess of Salisbury. In 1539 he was imprisoned with his mother in the Tower of London.