ATTRIBUTED TO SIR ANTONIO MOR (1512/19-1575/77)

An Important Historical Portrait Miniature of William, 1st Marquess of Winchester, K.G., facing left in fur-bordered black cloak and white lace collar, wearing the chain of the Order of the Garter, black hat; gold border

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ATTRIBUTED TO SIR ANTONIO MOR (1512/19-1575/77)
An Important Historical Portrait Miniature of William, 1st Marquess of Winchester, K.G., facing left in fur-bordered black cloak and white lace collar, wearing the chain of the Order of the Garter, black hat; gold border
oil on card
26 in. (53 mm.) diam., silver-gilt frame with spiral cresting, the reverse engraved William Paulett, 1st Marquis of Winchester. ob. 1571. aet. 97. by Sir Antony Moore.

来源

Miss J. M. Seymour of Knoyle, Wiltshire; (+) Sotheby's, London, 9 May 1928, lot 57.
Robert Bayne-Powell, C.B.

出版

A. B. Edwards, The Photographic Historical Gallery, London, 1864, illustrated pl. XLIX.
B. Long, British Miniaturists, London, 1929, p. 302 (praised as a 'good oil miniature').
D. Foskett, A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters, London, 1972, I, p. 411, illustrated II, pl. 234, no. 593.
D. Foskett, Miniatures: Dictionary and Guide, Woodbridge, 1987, p. 602.

展览

London, Victoria and Albert Museum (until 1928, lent by the Trustees of the Seymour Estate).

拍品专文

Sir William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester, K.G. (1485-1572), was elevated to the Peerage 9 March 1538-39 as Baron St. John of Basing and was appointed one of the executors of the will of King Henry VIII. He was created Earl of Wiltshire in 1549/50 and in 1551, Marquess of Winchester. He was installed as a Knight of the Garter and was Lord Treasurer of England during the reign of King Edward VI, Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth. When asked how he had preserved the treasureship through so many years he replied 'By being a willow, not an oak'. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Alderman Sir William Capel, K.T. of the city of London and was succeeded by his son, John.