MARCUS GHEERAERTS II (BRUGES 1561/62-1635/36 LONDON) AND STUDIO

Lot 116
03.12.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1513645
Lot 116 | MARCUS GHEERAERTS II (BRUGES 1561/62-1635/36 LONDON) AND STUDIO
Estimate value
£ 15 000 – 20 000
MARCUS GHEERAERTS II (BRUGES 1561/62-1635/36 LONDON) AND STUDIO
Portrait of Sir Richard Lee (before 1548-1608), three-quarter-length, in a black cloak and hat and white ruff, holding a sword
oil on canvas
48 x 36 in. (122 x 91.5 cm.)




Provenance

Sir Henry Lee (1533-1611), Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire, and by descent to,
Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon, 17th Viscount Dillon (1844-1932); his sale (†), Sotheby's, London, 24 May 1933, lot 18, as 'English School, Late 16th Century', where acquired by,
Sir Richard Lee (1865-1953), and by descent.



Literature

R. Strong, 'Elizabethan Painting: An Approach Through Inscriptions - III: Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger', The Burlington Magazine, CV, April 1963, p. 154.
S. Simpson, Sir Henry Lee (1533-1611): Elizabethan Courtier, Farnham, 2014.
R. Strong, The Elizabethan Image: An Introduction to English Portraiture 1558 to 1603, New Haven and London, 2019, p. 183.



Exhibited

Oxford, Examination Schools, Loan Collection of Portraits of English Historical Personages who died prior to the year 1625, 1904, no. 100, lent by Viscount Dillon.
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