Property from a Rothschild Family Collection, formerly on loan to Waddesdon Manor
Hans Eworth
Portrait of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (1538–1578)
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2,000,000 - 3,000,000 GBP
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Property from a Rothschild Family Collection, formerly on loan to Waddesdon Manor
Hans Eworth
Antwerp 1515–1574 London
Portrait of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (1538–1578)
oil on oak panel
signed in monogram, on the sword guard: HE; and inscribed: 1562 / ÆTATIS 25
unframed: 109.2 x 81.3 cm.; 43 x 32 in.
framed: 127 x 100 cm.; 50 x 39⅜ in.
Probably by inheritance to the sitter’s sister, Jane Howard, Countess of Westmorland (1533–1593);
Thence by descent to Francis William Fane, 12th Earl of Westmorland (1826–1891), Apethorpe Palace, Northamptonshire;
From whom acquired, via Thomas Agnew & Sons, by Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild (1840–1915), Tring Park, Hertfordshire;
By inheritance at Tring to his grandson, Nathan Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild (1910–1990);
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Manchester, Art Treasures Exhibition, 5 May – 17 October 1857, no. 68 (as by an unknown artist);
London, Royal Academy, 5 January – 14 March 1885, no. 148 (as by Lucas de Heere);
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, on loan, 1946–1947;
London, Royal Academy, Holbein, 1950, no. 58;
London, Royal Academy, British Portraits, 1956–1957, no. 20;
Leicester, City Art Gallery, Hans Eworth. A Tudor Artist and his Circle, 10 – 28 November 1965, no. 13;
London, National Portrait Gallery, Hans Eworth. A Tudor Artist and his Circle, 14 December 1965 – 9 January 1966, no. 13;
London, Tate Gallery, Dynasties. Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England 1530–1630, 12 October 1995 – 7 January 1996, no. 27;
London, National Portrait Gallery, Elizabeth I & Her People, 10 October 2013 – 5 January 2014, no. 17a;
Compton Verney, Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park, Tudor Mystery: The Master of the Countess of Warwick, 4 February – 7 May 2023, no. 4.
L. Cust, ‘The Painter HE’, in The Walpole Society, vol. II, 1913, p. 31;
C.H. Collins Baker and W.G. Constable, English Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries, Paris and Florence 1930, p. 25;
R. Strong, Hans Eworth. A Tudor Artist and his Circle, exh. cat., Leicester 1965, p. 6, no. 13, reproduced p. 20a;
R. Strong, Tudor & Jacobean Portraits, 2 vols, London 1969, vol. I, p. 233, vol. 2., reproduced pl. 459;
R. Strong, The English Icon: Elizabethan & Jacobean Portraiture, London and New York 1969, p. 95, no. 36, reproduced;
K. Hearn (ed.), Dynasties. Painting in Tudor and Jacobean England 1530–1630, exh. cat., London 1995, pp. 70–71, no. 27, reproduced in colour;
M. Graves, ‘Howard, Thomas, fourth Duke of Norfolk’, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, published online 3 January 2004, reproduced;
T. Cooper (ed.), Elizabeth I & Her People, exh. cat., London 2013, p. 82, cat. no. 17a, reproduced in colour p. 80;
T. Cooper and H. Walker, ‘Talent and Adversity; A reassessment of the life and works of Hans Eworth in Antwerp and London’, in T. Cooper et al., Painting in Britain 1500–1630, London 2015, p. 237, reproduced in colour;
A. Orrock, in Tudor Mystery: The Master of the Countess of Warwick, A. Orrock (ed.), exh. cat., Compton Verney 2023, pp. 26–27, no. 4, reproduced in colour;
To be included in the forthcoming online catalogue raisonné: H. Walker, Hans Eworth, Antwerp Painter and Goldsmith: A Complete Digital Catalogue, due for publication in 2026: https://www.hanseworth.com/digital-catalogue
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