Sir William Segar

Ralph Sheldon (c. 1537–1613), acquired as part of an historic set of portraits for Weston House, Warwickshire;

By direct descent to William Sheldon (1715–1780);

His posthumous sale ('A catalogue of the Elegant and Rich Houshold [sic] Furniture [... ] pictures [...] of the late William Sheldon, esq; dec. at his seat, called Weston, near Long Compton, in the County of Warwick'), on the premises, Weston House, Warwickshire, Christie's, 27 August – 11 September 1781, lot 45 for £1.1s.0d to W. Selby;

With Horatio Rodd, London, 1824;

With Moon, Boys & Graves, London, 1853 (according to the Scharf sketchbook);

From whom probably acquired by Lady Sarah Sophia Fane, 5th Countess of Jersey (1785–1867), who married George Child-Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey and 8th Viscount Grandison (1773–1859), 38 Berkeley Square, London, and Middleton Park, Oxfordshire, where recorded by Sir George Scharf, 23 May 1861, as 'Earl of Essex (Rob.^t Devereux) / in Library');

Thence by descent in the family of the Earls of Jersey at Osterley Park, Middlesex, and Radier Manor, Jersey.

H. Rodd, A catalogue of authentic portraits, painted in oil, on panel and canvas..., London 1824, p. 15, no. 41;

G. Scharf, Sketchbook 59, 1860–1861, MS NPG7/3/4/2/70, National Portrait Gallery, London, October 1860 – May 1861, p. 154 (as 'Earl of Essex (Rob.^t Devereux) / in Library');

D.T. Piper, 'The 1590 Lumley Inventory', in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 99, September 1957, p. 300 n. 9;

R. Strong, Tudor & Jacobean Portraits, London 1969, vol. I, p. 2116, reproduced vol. II, pl. 228 (as William Segar?);

R. Strong, The Elizabethan Image, exh. cat., Tate Gallery, London, 1969–70, p. 60, no. 124, reproduced (as William Segar);

R. Strong, The English Icon, London and New York 1969, p. 220, no. 180, reproduced (as William Segar);

C. Daunt, Portrait sets in Tudor and Jacobean England, unpublished dissertation, University of Sussex, 2015, vol. 1, pp. 136–37, vol. 2, p. 233, no. 13 (as derived from the type by William Segar).

London, Tate Gallery, The Elizabethan Image, Painting in England 1540–1620, 28 November 1969 – 8 February 1970, no. 124 (as William Segar).