English artist
Walter Devereux, First Earl of Essex
English artist
Walter Devereux, First Earl of Essex
1572104.5 x 80 cm
Oil on wood
Dated and inscribed: (upper left, on Garter) HONI·SOIT·QVI·MAL·Y·PENSE· (Shame on him who thinks evil); (upper right) Ao·DNI·1572· / ÆT·SVÆ·32· / VIRTVTIS, COMES, INVIDIA (Envy is the companion of virtue).
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Rogers Fund, 1920
Literature
Collection catalogues
Katharine Baetjer, British paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875, New York; New Haven and London, 2009, nr. 1
Provenance
By descent to Lord John Thynne, 3rd Baron Carteret, until died 1849
by descent to his nephew, Rev. John Thynne
Rev. John Thynne, Haynes Park, Bedfordshire, until died 1881
by descent to his son, Francis John Thynne
Francis John Thynne, Haynes Park, until died 1910
by descent to his son, Bevil Granville Carteret Thynne
Bevil Granville Carteret Thynne, 1910–11
Thynne Heirlooms sale, Christie's, London, 1 May 1911, nr. 35, to Leggatt
with Leggatt, London, from 1911
Sir Guy Francis Laking, London and York Gate House, Broadstairs, Kent, until died 1919
his estate sale, Christie's, London, 23 April 1920, nr. 46, as by F. Zuccaro, to Bashford Dean for MMA