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Summary
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Unknown English: English School
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| Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
English: Portrait of Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon (1526-1556). In background a ruined castle, possibly Tiverton Castle, seat of the Earls of Devon |
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| Date | circa 1555 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on panel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 41.5 in (105.4 cm); width: 30 in (76.2 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Object history |
English: Provenance:
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| 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, Comes Devon
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5763897 (sale 6454, lot 70) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Frame removed.
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