STUDIO OF MARCUS GHEERAERTS THE YOUNGER (BRUGES 1561 / 62-1635 LONDON)

Lot 12
29.11.2023 10:30UTC +00:00
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Lot 12 | STUDIO OF MARCUS GHEERAERTS THE YOUNGER (BRUGES 1561 / 62-1635 LONDON)
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£ 5 000 – 8 000
STUDIO OF MARCUS GHEERAERTS THE YOUNGER (BRUGES 1561 / 62-1635 LONDON)

Portrait of Sir Henry Lee (1533-1611), half-length, in a white and gold doublet and gilt embroidered black cape, wearing the Garter Collar and Great George of the Order of the Garter

oil on canvas

44 x 34 ¼ in. (111.8 x 87 cm.)

inscribed 'Fide · et · constantia' (upper left) and 'Anno Dom: 1600 / Ætatis Sua. 68' (upper right)





Provenance

By descent in the family to Richard Hill, 7th Baron Sandys (1931-2013), Ombersley Court, Worcestershire.



Literature

ONM / 1 / 2 / 7, journal entry for a visit to Ombersley Court, 25 August 1950, Oliver Millar Archive, Paul Mellon Centre, London, pp. 22 and 23.

R. Strong, Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, London, 1969, I, p. 191, as 'a copy'.

Ombersley Court Inventory, June 1963, annotated Ombersley MS, where listed in 'The Study'.

Ombersley Court Catalogue of Pictures, undated, Ombersley MS., p. 12, where listed in 'The Study'.
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