ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE GOWER (LONDON C. 1538-1596)

Lot 3
02.07.2024 19:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 3 | ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE GOWER (LONDON C. 1538-1596)
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£ 300 000 – 500 000
ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE GOWER (LONDON C. 1538-1596)
Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), bust-length, in an embroidered red dress with white chemisette and embroidered ruff, with a jewelled chain and headdress
oil on panel
18 5/8 in. x 13 5/8 in. (47.4 x 34.6 cm.)
with inventory number 'No: 647' (lower right)




Provenance

(Possibly) taken to Vienna by Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, in 1567.
Prince Esterházy - either Nikolaus III (1817-1894) or Pal Antal Miklós (1843-1898) - from whom acquired by,
Alfred Morrison (1821-1897), Fonthill House, Tisbury, Wiltshire, by 1890, and by descent.



Literature

H. Stokes, ‘The Morrison Pictures’, Country Life, XXXVI, 19 December 1914, p. 810, as ‘Lucas de Heere’.
B. Nichols, 'Two Exhibitions in Aid of National Funds', The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, XXVI, no. 142, January 1915, p. 164, pl. 1, as 'Lucas de Heere'.
R. Strong, Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I, Oxford, 1963, p. 58, no. 20, under '? c. 1563 onwards. The "Barrington Park" Pattern. Group B: Eyes looking towards the spectator'.
R. Strong, National Portrait Gallery: Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, London, 1969, I, p. 110, under '? circa 1563, The "Barrington Park" pattern'.
E. Town and J. David, ‘George Gower: portraitist, Mercer, Serjeant Painter’, The Burlington Magazine, CLXII, no. 1410, September 2020, pp. 744-5, fig. 21, as 'here attributed to George Gower’ and dated to circa 1567.



Exhibited

London, Grosvenor Gallery, Third National Loan Exhibition: Pictures from the Basildon Park and Fonthill Collections, 1914-15, no. 40, as 'Lucas de Heere'.
London, Grosvenor Place, A Loan Exhibition depicting the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, 26 January-March 1933, no. 215, as 'School of M. Gheeraerts' (lent by John S. Morrison).
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, 2019, on loan.
London, British Library, Elizabeth and Mary: Royal Cousins, Rival Queens, 8 October 2021-20 February 2022, no. 60, as 'Attributed to George Gower'.
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