Called Cuthbert Fetherston (1537-1615)
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1598
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
572 x 419 mm (22 1/2 x 16 1/2 in )
Place of origin
England.
Order this imageCollection
Uppark House and Garden, West Sussex
NT 138288
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Called Cuthbert Fetherston (1537-1615), Dutch School, circa 1598. A half-length portrait, turned slightly to the right, dressed in black, with white ruff, a silver-topped staff in his right hand. The likeness accords with the sculpted image on his tomb in St. Dunstan's-in-the-West, London. Usher and Crier to Elizabeth I and James I, he built Hassingbrook Hall in Essex and was the grandfather of Sir Heneage Fetherstone, 1st Bt.
Credit line
Uppark, The Fetherstonhaugh Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: on old panel on back of panel: Cuthbert Fetherston Esqr./ Grandfather of Sr. Hennage Fetherston Bart. came from/ Stanhope in the County of Durham/1550 - drawn by Cornelius Johnson/about 1614
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist previously catalogued as attributed to Cornelius Johnson (London 1593 - Utrecht 1661), artist Dutch School, artist