Important British Paintings (1500-1850)
Catalog Information: 105 lots | 104 with images
Date: 2006
Auction House:
Sotheby's
Location:
United Kingdom
Lot 1: CIRCLE OF STEVEN VAN DER MEULEN FL.1543-1568
PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, PROBABLY SIR THOMAS GRESHAM (C.1518-1579)measurements note48 by 33 cm., 19 by 13 in.half length, wearing a black slashed doubletoil on panelNOTESir Thomas Gresham was the founder of the London Stock Exchange and Gresham Colle [...more]
Lot 2: FOLLOWER OF HANS HOLBEIN THE YOUNGER 1497/8-1543
PORTRAIT OF A LADY, POSSIBLY ELIZABETH SEYMOUR, SISTER OF LADY JANE GREYmeasurements note71 by 48 cm., 28 by 19 in.half length, wearing a dark coloured dress trimmed with golda wax heraldic seal on the reverse oil on panelPROVENANCEBy descent at Tren [...more]
Lot 3: ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGE JAMESONE C.1589-1644
PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN (1585-1649)measurements note64 by 49 cm., 25 by 49¼ in.Half length, wearing black, with lace collar and cuffs, holding a bookoil on canvasPROVENANCEAnon sale, Dowells, 19th December 1951, lot 581; Halkett o [...more]
Lot 4: CIRCLE OF JOHN HOSKINS C.1595-1664
PORTRAIT OF ROBERT CARR, EARL OF SOMERSET (1585-1645)measurements note74 by 62 cm., 29 by 24½ in.Half length, wearing a slashed doublet, a white ruff, and the Order of the Garterlater inscribed u.l. with the identity of the sitteroil on canvas, in a [...more]
Lot 5: ATTRIBUTED TO PAUL VAN SOMER 1576-1621
THE PROPERTY OF A NOBLEMANPORTRAIT OF A GIRL, PROBABLY LADY MARY FEILDING (1613-1638), LATER DUCHESS OF HAMILTONmeasurements note115 by 78 cm., 45 by 30 ½ in.Full length, standing by a chair, wearing a red dress, her left hand on a small dogInscribed [...more]
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