Property from a Private Collection, Virginia, Sold Without Reserve
Circle of the Master of the Countess of Warwick
Portrait of Sir Gabriel Poyntz, aged 30, wearing a yellow slashed doublet and red breeches
No reserve
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May 26, 02:46 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Property from a Private Collection, Virginia, Sold Without Reserve
Circle of the Master of the Countess of Warwick
Portrait of Sir Gabriel Poyntz, aged 30, wearing a yellow slashed doublet and red breeches
inscribed above heraldic crest upper left: CRAINTE REFRAINTE
inscribed and dated upper right: GABRIEL POYNTZ / ANO DOMINI 1568 / AETATIS SVAE 3[0]
oil on panel
panel: 35 ⅞ by 28 ⅜ in.; 91.1 by 72.1 cm.
framed: 42 by 34 ½ in.; 106.7 by 87.6 cm.
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 20 April 1990, lot 1 (as attributed to the Master of the Countess of Warwick).
Notes and Queries 8 (July-December 1853), p. 440;
J. Maclean, An Historical and Genealogical Memoir of the Family of Poyntz, Exeter 1886, pp. 38-39.
Born in Antwerp in 1534, Sir Gabriel Poyntz was the lord of the manor of North Ockendon, an estate which remained in the possession of the Essex branch of the Poyntz family from circa 1300 to 1725. He was knighted at Whitehall by King James I on May 30, 1604 and was twice appointed the High Sheriff of Essex. This stately portrait was painted in 1568, the year in which he was married, and was possibly commissioned to commemorate the occasion. Inscribed at upper left above the heraldic crest is the Poyntz family motto: “Crainte Refrainte” (Fear Repressed).
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