© Royal Armouries Museum
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.
