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Portrait of Robert Radcliffe, 5th Earl of Sussex (1569-1629) Portrait of Robert Radcliffe, 5th Earl of Sussex (1569-1629)
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Portrait of Robert Radcliffe, 5th Earl of Sussex (1569-1629)

Unknown Artist

Art Funded
1950
Dimensions
216 x 141 cm
Vendor
Sotheby's
Portrait of Robert Radcliffe, 5th Earl of Sussex (1569-1629).

Full length, in white Greenwich armour down to waist. Left hand holding sword, right holding lance. Inscribed 'Amando et fidando troppo, son rovinato'.

Provenance

Mentioned in Lumley Castle Inventory 1590; described in the 'Literary Cabinet' 1785 as at Lumley Castle; Earl of Scarborough Sale 1785; Henry Harris Sale 1950; Collection of Henry Harris.

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