Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
1596/1601
Painter


West Building Main Floor, Gallery 42
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on wood
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 114.7 x 87.7 cm (45 3/16 x 34 1/2 in.)
framed: 152.7 x 125.7 x 6.3 cm (60 1/8 x 49 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1947.18.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Lt. Col. Richard Rouse-Boughton Orlebar [1862-1950], Hinwick House, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. (M. Knoedler & Co., London), by 1931.[1] (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), by 1943.[2] Mrs. Henry R. Rea, Sewickley Heights, Pennsylvania; gift 1947 to NGA.
[1] Information from the mount of a photograph in the Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
[2] Information from the back of a Knoedler photograph in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1945
Development of Portraiture, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 1945, no cat.
2003
Elizabeth I, Then and Now, The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., 2003, not in cat.
Loan to display with permanent collection, The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., 2003-2004.
Bibliography
1957
Piper, David. "The 1590 Lumley Inventory: Hilliard, Segar and the Earl of Essex. II." The Burlington Magazine 99 (1957): 299-303.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 20, as British School, The Earl of Essex.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 13, repro., as British School, The Earl of Essex.
1969
Strong, Roy C. The English Icon: Elizabethan and Jacobean Portraiture. London and New York, 1969: 297.
Strong, Roy C. Tudor and Jacobean Portraits. 2 vols. London, 1969: 1:116.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 46, repro., as British School, The Earl of Essex
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 158, no. 175, color repro., as The Earl of Essex by British School.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 20, repro.
1992
Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 112-114, repro. 113.
Wikidata ID
Q20176856