The Family Collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma

The Family Collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma

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Circle of Robert Peake the Elder

Portrait of Susan Greene, Mrs. Richard Knatchbull (d.1610), standing three-quarter length, wearing a black dress and cap and white ruff

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Robert Peake the Elder

Lincolnshire 1551–1619 London

Portrait of Susan Greene, Mrs. Richard Knatchbull (d.1610), standing three-quarter length, wearing a black dress and cap and white ruff


oil on canvas

107.5 x 84 cm.

Catalogue of Portraits, 1920, no. 1.
The sitter was the daughter of Thomas Greene of Bobbing in Essex, grandson of Sir Thomas Norton of Milton. It was from this connection that the family name Norton originated. She was the second wife of Richard Knatchbull (1525-82), son of John Knatchbull and his wife Alice Fowle. They had three sons: Norton (later knighted, see lot 105), Thomas and George.