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Format: png Type: Photo Title: Edward Courtney, Earl of Devon, unknown artist, English School, c. 1555 |
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Publication: Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaText: Artist Unknown
English: English School
Formerly attributed to Steven van der Meulen (fl. 1543–1568) Formerly attributed to Hans Eworth (circa 1520–1574?)
]Formerly attributed to Antonis Mor (1519–1575)
Description
English: Portrait of Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon (1526 - 1556)
Date circa 1555
Medium oil on panel
Dimensions 41.5 × 30 in (105.4 × 76.2 cm)
Object history
English:
The Dukes of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, by 1727, and by descent to,
Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford
Sold Christie's, London, 19 January 1951, lot 126, as Mor (220 gns. the following).
Colonel A.V. Dower Gander, T.D. (1898-1980), until at least 1956.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 17 April 1980, lot 51, as Hans Eworth (£7,000).
With Lane Fine Art, London, 1980, from whom acquired by the present owner.
Sold Christie's 22 January 2014
Inscriptions En puer, ac insons et adhuc juvenilibus annis / Annos bis septem carcere clausus cram, Me pater his tenust Vinelis, Que filia soluit / Sois me sic tandem vertitur a Superis
bottom right: E. Cortenay Cornes Devon
Notes Roy Strong (1969) dates this as 1568 and attributes it to van der Meulen; as Courtney died in 1556 we accept Christie's 2014 date of c. 1555.
References Strong, Roy (1969) The English Icon: Elizabethan and Jacobean Portraiture, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul
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