Live Auction 1186The Collection of Professor Sir Albert Richardson, P.R.A.
After Hans Eworth
Lot 78

After Hans Eworth

Portrait of Mary I, Queen of England (1516-1558), small three-quarter-length, in a dark red coat with fur collar, holding a letter at a draped table

Closed19 September 2013

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GBP 3,250

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After Hans Eworth
Portrait of Mary I, Queen of England (1516-1558), small three-quarter-length, in a dark red coat with fur collar, holding a letter at a draped table
indistinctly inscribed 'THE ...' (on the document in the sitter's right hand)
oil on panel
8½ x 6½ in. (21.6 x 16.5 cm.)

Harold Peto (1854-1933), garden designer, Iford Manor, Wiltshire, by whom given to Professor Sir Albert Richardson.

Specialist note

After the picture by Hans Eworth of circa 1555-1558 in a private collection (see K. Hearn, Dynasties: Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England 1530-1630, Peterborough, 1995, pp. 66-67, no. 24). In another life-size version of this portrait (private collection), the same document appears in the sitter's right hand, inscribed 'The Supplication of Thomas Hongad'; this is thought to refer to a courtier named Thomas Hungate.