ENGLISH SCHOOL, 1571

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Los 15 | ENGLISH SCHOOL, 1571
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ENGLISH SCHOOL, 1571

Portrait of Edwin Sandys, Bishop of London and later Archbishop of York (1519-1588), half-length, in a black fur-trimmed gown and hat, holding a page in a book

oil on panel

30 3⁄8 x 24 ¼ in. (77.1 x 61.8 cm.)

inscribed 'ÆTATIS SVÆ 52 / AN.O DOM / 1571' (upper right)





Provenance

(Presumably) by descent in the Sandys family to,

Samuel Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys (1695-1770), and by descent to his son,

Edwin Sandys, 2nd Baron Sandys (1726-1797), and by inheritance to his niece,

Mary, Marchioness of Downshire and 1st Baroness Sandys (1764-1836), and by descent to her second son,

Lieutenant-General Arthur Hill, 2nd Baron Sandys (1792-1860), and by inheritance to his younger brother,

Arthur Marcus Sandys, 3rd Baron Sandys (1798-1863), and by descent in the family to,

Richard Hill, 7th Baron Sandys (1931-2013), Ombersley Court, Worcestershire.



Literature

J. Grego, Inventory of Pictures: Portraits, Paintings, etc., Ombersley MS., 1905, where listed in the Library.

M. Rosenheim and G.F. Hill, 'Notes on Some Italian Medals', The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, XII, October 1907-March 1908, p. 150.

ONM / 1 / 2 / 7, journal entry for a visit to Ombersley Court, 25 August 1950, Oliver Millar Archive, Paul Mellon Centre, London, p. 17.

A. Oswald, 'Ombersley Court, Worcestershire - I', Country Life, 2 January 1953, pp. 35 and 37, pls. 3 and 11.

Ombersley Court Inventory, June 1963, annotated Ombersley MS, as 'Guilliam Streets', where listed in 'The Library'.

R. Strong, Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, London, 1969, 1, p. 276, pl. 543.

J. Ingamells, The English Episcopal Portrait 1559-1835, London, 1981, p. 345, no. A1.

Ombersley Court Catalogue of Pictures, undated, Ombersley MS, p. 38, as 'English School', where listed in the 'Main Staircase'.
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