The Family Collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma

The Family Collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 106. Portrait of Richard Knatchbull (1569-1605), three-quarter length, in a black embroidered doublet, with a sword, resting his right hand on a table.

Circle of John de Critz

Portrait of Richard Knatchbull (1569-1605), three-quarter length, in a black embroidered doublet, with a sword, resting his right hand on a table

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March 24, 08:41 PM GMT

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20,000 - 30,000 GBP

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Circle of John de Critz

Portrait of Richard Knatchbull (1569-1605), three-quarter length, in a black embroidered doublet, with a sword, resting his right hand on a table


later inscribed and dated upper left: Richard Knatchbull Esqr. / 1605 / 1.st Cousn. to Sr Norton Kt; and later inscribed upper right: Æta: 36

oil on canvas

107.1 x 84.1 cm.

Inventory, 1849, p. 5, in the library;
Catalogue of Portraits, 1920, no. 13;
A.T. Bolton, ‘Mersham le Hatch’, Country Life, 26 March 1921, photographed in the dining room, p. 371.
The sitter was the second son of John Knatchbull and his wife Anne Sheaf. He was first cousin to Sir Norton Knatchbull (see lot 105). He married firstly Catherine, daughter of Sir Thomas Boys of Barfreston in Kent, and secondly Anne, daughter of William Gibbons.