Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction
Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction
The Property of the Rt Hon. The Earl of Jersey
Portrait of Katherine Parr (1512–1548), Queen of England and Ireland
Auction Closed
July 5, 07:17 PM GMT
Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
The Property of the Rt Hon. The Earl of Jersey
Attributed to Master John
active in England 1544–1545
Portrait of Katherine Parr (1512–1548), Queen of England and Ireland
oil on oak panel
92.3 x 71.8 cm.; 36⅜ x 28¼ in.
His posthumous sale, London, Christie's, 28 April 1827, lot 54 (as Sir A. More [Anthonis Mor], Portrait of Queen Mary, the wife of Philip), for £27–16s. to Street;
Anonymous sale, London, Wheatley and Adlard, 1 April 1829, lot 225 (as Lucas de Heere, Queen Mary the First), for £31–10s. to William Nathaniel Tuck;
Anonymous sale, London, Horatio Rodd, [unknown dates] 1831, lot 9 (as Lucas de Heere, Mary I, 'A most curious and rare Portrait, from the Collection of the late Mr. Dent'), for £52–10s.;
Thomas Baylis Esq. (d. 1875), Pryor's Bank, Fulham, circa 1831–41;
His sale, on the premises, Pryor's Bank, Deacon, 3–8 May 1841, lot 598 (as Lucas de Heere, Queen Mary);
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1797–1861), Stowe House, 1841–48;
His sale, on the premises, Stowe House, Christie's, 14 September 1848 (15 August – 7 November 1848), lot 290 (as Holbein, Queen Mary, in a black dress, with richly ornamented sleeves), for £70–7s.–6d. to Edwards;
Lady Sarah Sophia Fane, 5th Countess of Jersey (1785–1867), who married George Child-Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey and 8th Viscount Grandison (1773–1859), 38 Berkeley Square, London, and Middleton Park, Oxfordshire, where recorded by Sir George Scharf, 23 May 1861, as 'Princess Mary. Holbein / in Library');
Thence by descent in the family of the Earls of Jersey at Osterley Park, Middlesex, and Radier Manor, Jersey.
R. Strong, Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, London 1969, vol. I, pp. 78–79, reproduced vol. II, fig. 148 (as 'destroyed by fire', and identified as Lady Jane Grey);
S.E. James, 'Lady Jane Grey or Queen Kateryn Parr?', in The Burlington Magazine, January 1996, p. 20 n. 1 (as 'destroyed', according to Strong);
E. Metz-Longinette-Gahring, The Case for the Queen; The Identification of the Radier Portrait, privately produced, 2010.