CIRCLE OF GERLACH FLICKE (OSNABRÜCK C. 1495-1558 LONDON) - photo 1
CIRCLE OF GERLACH FLICKE (OSNABRÜCK C. 1495-1558 LONDON) - photo 2
CIRCLE OF GERLACH FLICKE (OSNABRÜCK C. 1495-1558 LONDON) - photo 3

CIRCLE OF GERLACH FLICKE (OSNABRÜCK C. 1495-1558 LONDON)

Lot 122
29.11.2023 10:30UTC +00:00
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ID 1071057
Lot 122 | CIRCLE OF GERLACH FLICKE (OSNABRÜCK C. 1495-1558 LONDON)
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£ 6 000 – 9 000
CIRCLE OF GERLACH FLICKE (OSNABRÜCK C. 1495-1558 LONDON)

Portrait of Sir John Cheke (1514-1557), half-length, in black with a fur collar, holding a letter and gloves

oil on panel

41 3⁄8 x 31 in. (105 x 78.8 cm.)

with identifying inscription 'Sr. John Cheek Preceptor / to King Edward the Sixth' (lower left)





Provenance

(Presumably) by descent in the Cheke family to the sitter's great-great grandaughter,

Anne, Lady Tipping, née Cheke (1678-1728), and by descent to her daughter,

Letitia Tipping (1699-1779), wife of Samuel Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys (1695-1770), and by descent to their 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. Strype, The Life of the Learned Sir John Cheke, London, 1705, frontispiece, where described as in the possession of the Dowager Marchioness of Downshire.

T.R. Nash, Collections for the History of Worcestershire, London, 1781-2, II, p. 223, where listed in the Dining Parlor.

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

ONM / 1 / 2 / 7, journal entry for a visit to Ombersley Court, 25 August 1950, Oliver Millar Archive, Paul Mellon Centre, London, p. 21.

A. Oswald, 'Ombersley Court, Worcestershire - II', Country Life, 9 January 1953, pp. 94 and 96, pl. 5, where listed in the Library.

Ombersley Court Inventory, June 1963, annotated Ombersley MS., as 'English School', where listed in the Study.

R. Strong, Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, London, 1969, I, pp. 48-49, II, pl. 86.

Ombersley Court Catalogue of Pictures, undated, Ombersley MS., p. 36, as 'Zucchero (Guillem Streets?)', where listed in the Main Staircase.
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