Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945)

The present work was originally painted as an illustration for Lytton Stachey's "Elizabeth and Essex," a serial published in Ladie's Home Journal. Essex Sails for Cádiz depicts Robert Devereux, the 2nd Earl of Essex in the foreground, with several of his crew aboard his ship, The Essex. Devereux was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I of England and undertook many military and navy ventures on her behalf, most prominently the capture of Cádiz in southwestern Spain in 1596.

This painting is I.1078 in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné and is included in the catalogue raisonné database that is being compiled by the Brandywine River Museum and Conservancy, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.