CIRCLE OF MARCUS GHEERAERTS THE YOUNGER (BRUGES 1561/1562-1635/1636 LONDON)
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CIRCLE OF MARCUS GHEERAERTS THE YOUNGER (BRUGES 1561/1562-1635/1636 LONDON)

Portrait of Mary Whitmore, Lady Montagu (1575-1652), full-length, in a black dress, holding a fan

已结束2020年12月17日

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CIRCLE OF MARCUS GHEERAERTS THE YOUNGER (BRUGES 1561/1562-1635/1636 LONDON)
Portrait of Mary Whitmore, Lady Montagu (1575-1652), full-length, in a black dress, holding a fan
oil on canvas
81 1/8 x 47 ½ in. (206 x 120.6 cm.)

By descent from the sitter to her daughter,
Anne North, Lady North, née Montagu, wife of Dudley North, 4th Baron North (1602-1677), Kirtling Tower, Cambridgeshire, and by descent in the family to,
William North, 11th Baron North (1836-1932), Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire; his sale (†), E.H. Tipping, on the premises, 22 May 1933 (=1st day).
with Sabin Galleries, London, by 1980, where acquired by the present owner.

专家说明

The sitter was the daughter of Sir William Whitmore, a London merchant, and Anne Bond. She married Sir Charles Montagu (c.1564-1625), son of Sir Edward Montagu, and Elizabeth Harrington of Boughton, Northamptonshire. The marriage produced three daughters, the eldest of which, Anne, married Lord Dudley North, 4th Baron North, and to whom this portrait passed (see provenance).

The sitter’s dress, with the open ruff and gauze puffs at the inner edge, can be dated to circa 1600 and can be compared with that worn by Elizabeth Finch, Countess of Winchelsea, in Gheeraerts’s three-quarter-length portrait inscribed ‘Ano 1600’ (Private collection; see Dynasties, Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England 1530-1630, exhibition catalogue, London, 1995, pp. 179-180, no. 122).

We are grateful to Karen Hearn for her thoughts on the portrait.