Portrait of Sir Philip Sidney
Unknown Artist
- Art Funded
- 1985
- Dimensions
- 114 x 84 cm
- Vendor
- Lane Fine Art
Portrait of Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86), Elizabethan soldier, statesman and poet, aged 23.
Inscribed Caetera Fama, a motto signifying: this is what he looked like, therest is fame.
Provenance
Dukes of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (perhaps by decent from Sir William Russell), sold in 1951.