Sir Horatio de Vere, Baron Vere of Tilbury (1565-1635)
Michiel Jansz. van Miereveldt (Delft 1567 – Delft 1641)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1629 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
686 x 571 mm (27 x 22 1/2 in)
Order this imageCollection
Ashdown House, Oxfordshire
NT 493060
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Sir Horatio de Vere, Baron Vere of Tilbury (1565-1635) by Michel Miereveldt (1567-1641), signed and dated "Ao 1629 M.Mierevelt". A half-length portrait to right, wearing armour, ruff and pale blue fringed sash over right shoulder. Inscribed on back "Duke Bernard No.99". He was the fourth son of Geoffrey Vere of Crepping Hall, Essex, a younger son of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, and Elizabeth Trussell. His mother was Elizabeth Hardekyn (d. December 1615), daughter of Richard Hardekyn (d.1558) of Wotton House near Castle Hedingham. He was an English military leader during the Eighty Years' War and the Thirty Years' War. He was sent to the Palatinate by James I in 1620. He was created Baron Vere of Tilbury. He married, in October 1607, Mary Tracy (1581-1671), daughter of Sir John Tracy (d.1591) and Anne Throckmorton, of Tuddington, Gloucestershire. Mary was the widow of William Hoby, by whom she had two children. With his death the barony of Vere of Tilbury became extinct. A version of this portrait, with an inset battlescene and which incorporates the sitter's coat of arms and motto, is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG 818). The daughters of Sir Horatio de Vere were: 1. Elizabeth Vere, who married John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare, grandfather of the first Duke of Newcastle; 2. Mary Vere, who married, first, Sir Roger Townshend, Baronet, of Raynham in Norfolk, whence are descended the Marquises of Townshend, and secondly, Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland; 3. Catherine Vere, who married, first, Oliver St John (1612/1613–November 1641 or 1642, son of Sir John St John, 1st Baronet, and Anne Leighton) and had Sir John St John, 2nd Baronet in 1648 (died 1657), and, secondly, John Poulett, 2nd Baron Poulett; 4. Anne Vere, who married Sir Thomas Fairfax (afterwards 3rd Baron Fairfax of Cameron); 5. Dorothy Vere, who married John Wolstenholme, eldest son of Sir John Wolstenholme, bart., of Nostell, Yorkshire 6. Susana Vere (1619–1623).
Provenance
Combe Abbey, 1866, no. 312;Acquired at the auction of the Craven Collection at Sotheby's in 1968. Accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the National Trust for display at Ashdown House, 1968.
Credit line
Ashdown House, The Craven Collection (acquired by HM Treasury and transferred to the National Trust in 1968)
Marks and inscriptions
Signed and dated "Ao 1629 M.Mierevelt". Inscribed on back "Duke Bernard No.99"
Makers and roles
Michiel Jansz. van Miereveldt (Delft 1567 – Delft 1641), artist