© Ferens Art Gallery
A Noblewoman
Artist: attributed to Sir William Segar (active 1580 - 1633)
Location: Ferens Art Gallery
Date: 1590s
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 104 x 83 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £2,000 (Total: £30,000)
Vendor: Sabin Galleries
Review number: 3002 (1983)
Provenance:
Henry Graves, 1860; Mrs Henry Cunliffe by 1890; Francis Howard, 1955; Sir Russell Brock.
Description:
Portrait of an unidentified lady of the Elizabethan court. She is sumptuously dressed and bejewelled, she carries gloves in one hand and a martin-fur flea-catcher in the other. Attributed to Sir William Segar whose career as a herald, culminating in his appointment as Garter King of Arms in 1603. Active mainly in the last decade and a half of the 16th century, painting the Queen, the Earls of Essex and Leicester etc.
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