English School

Probably commissioned by Sir Edward Hoby (1560-1617), Constable of Queenborough Castle, in the late 1590s;

Presumably acquired by Sir Humfrey Tufton, 1st Baronet (1584-1659);

Thence by descent to his son, Sir John Tufton, 2nd Baronet (c.1623-1685), by whose estate sold, 25th May 1686[1];

Possibly acquired at the Tufton Sale by Philip Sydney, 3rd Earl of Leicester (1618-1698), Penshurst Place (16 of the portrait set were hanging at Penshurst by 1728[2]);

In the collection of Henry Weysford Charles Plantagenet, 9th Earl of Loudoun, by 1866;

Thence by descent to Charles Edward Rawdon-Hastings, 11th Earl of Loudoun, until at least 1909;

A. Seligman Trevor & Co., London, 1938;

Leggatt Brothers, 1939;

Presumably acquired from above by Arthur Ronald Nall Nall-Cain, 2nd Baron Brocket (1904 –1967), by whom sold;

Sotheby’s, London, 16 July 1952, lot 19;

Bought from above by ‘Delafont’ (£78);

Private Collection, UK.

[1] See an advertisement in The London Gazette, 20th-24th May 1686.

[2] Where they were seen by Vertue, see Walpole Society, Vol. XX, pp.51-52.