English School, 16th Century

Portrait of Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln (1512-1585), half-length, seated, wearing a black embroidered coat edged with fur and the chain of the Garter, and holding gloves

細節

English School, 16th Century
Portrait of Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln (1512-1585), half-length, seated, wearing a black embroidered coat edged with fur and the chain of the Garter, and holding gloves
Inscribed 'Edward Earle of Lincoln Ld./High Admirall of England' and dated '1584' (upper right)
oil on panel
36 x 29½ in. 91.4 x 74.9 cm.

來源

The Dukes of Bedford sale; Christie's, London, 19 January 1951, lot 114, as 'Cornelis Ketel' (70 gns. to Elmhurst).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 March 1989, lot 20, as 'English School, 1584'.

出版

E. Lodge, An Historical Catalogue of an Exhibition of Portraits, 1829, p. 37.
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Paintings in the Collection of John, Duke of Bedford, K.G., at Woburn Abbey, 1834, no. 260, as 'Cornelius Ketel'.
Catalogue of Pictures, Miniatures, Drawings and Busts at Woburn Abbey, 1868, p. 10, as 'Cornelius Ketel'.
G. Scharf, A Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures at Woburn Abbey, 1890, p. 18, no. 24.
A.M. Bedford and E.M. Russell, Catalogue of the Pictures at Woburn Abbey, 1892, I, p. 323.
R. Strong, Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, 1969, I, p. 202.

刻印

J. Jenkins, for Lodge's Portraits, III, pl. 48.

拍品專文

The sitter was born in 1512, the son of Thomas, 8th Lord Clinton. In 1540 he joined Lord Lisle, Lord High-Admiral, with whom he served during the expedition to Scotland and the storming of Edinburgh in 1544. After the succession of Edward VI, Edward Clinton was appointed Lord High-Admiral, and upon the accession of Queen Mary, he was granted the special commission as Commander-in-Chief of the fleet and of forces against France and Scotland. He remained in this office after Queen Elizabeth came to the throne, and she later created him Earl of Lincoln in 1572.

In 1534, Edward Clinton married Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir John Blount, widow of Gilbert, Lord Talboys, and mistress of Henry VIII. He secondly married Ursula, daughter of William, Lord Stourton, in 1541; and thirdly Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald in 1552. Edward died in January 1585 and is buried in St. George's chapel at Windsor.