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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April 6, 01:57 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
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
oil on canvas
unframed: 107.5 x 84 cm.; 42⅜ x 33 in.
framed: 126.2 x 102.8 cm.; 49¾ x 40½ in.
By descent in the family collection of the sitter, to
Patricia, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1924-2017);
Her posthumous sale, London, Sotheby's, 24 March 2020, lot 107;
Where acquired.
Patricia, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1924-2017);
Her posthumous sale, London, Sotheby's, 24 March 2020, lot 107;
Where acquired.
C. Huggins, Catalogue of Portraits at Mersham Le Hatch, Kent, May 1920, no. 1 (Knatchbull Papers, Kent Archives, Maidstone U951 E14 U951 Z54-3).
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.
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