Manner of Hans Holbein 1498-1543

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

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Description

Hans Holbein the Elder
Portrait of Sir Nicholas Poyntz (1510-1557)
inscribed l.r.: ETATIS SVAE/ANNO 1535 and c.r.: IE OBAIS A QVI IE DOIS/IE SERS A QVI ME PLAIST/ET SVIS A QVI ME MERITE
oil on panel
57 by 41.5cm., 22½ by 16¼in.

half length, wearing a black tunic, a black hat, and a gold chain

Provenance

George Rushout, 3rd Baron Northwick (1811-1887), Northwick Park, Gloucestershire;

By descent to Captain E.G. Spencer-Churchill by whom sold in the Northwick Park sale, Christie's, 29th October 1965, lot 18

Literature

Collection of the Pictures, Works of Art, etc at Northwick Park, 1864, no.119;

Tancred Borenius, Northwick Pictures, 1921, p.99, no.226;

John Rowlands, Holbein, 1985, p.233, no.R24(f)

Catalogue Note

The sitter was the son of Sir Anthony Poyntz (1480-1533) of Iron Acton, Gloucestershire, who was knighted in 1513 after commanding a ship in Howard's expedition to France. Sir Nicholas was a prominent courtier in the latter days of Henry VIII's reign, and married Joan, daughter of Thomas Lord Berkeley. His son-in-law Sir Thomas Heneage became Vice-Chamberlain to Elizabeth I.

Poyntz was one of a group of courtiers attached to the Court, whom Holbein drew, and a drawing dated 1535, is in the Royal Collection. Holbein also drew Sir Nicholas's kinsman, John Poyntz (1498-1558).