Possibly Vere Egerton, Mrs William Booth (m. 1619)
attributed to Robert Peake the elder (c.1551 – 1619)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1619
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
2165 x 1295 mm (85 1/4 x 51 in)
Order this imageCollection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 2900022
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Possibly Vere Egerton, Mrs William Booth (m. 1619), attributed to Robert Peake (c.1551-1619).
Provenance
By descent in the Booth family at Dunham Massey, recorded in the 1769 and 1776 picture lists for the house; by descent to the Grey family (Earls of Stamford) at Enville Hall, Staffordshire; sold from Enville by Sir John Foley Grey, 8th Bt, 15 June 1928, lot 14; bought by the Savile Gallery for £1,995; purchased from the Savile Gallery and thence by descent until offered for sale at auction at Sotheby's, London, Old Master and British Paintings evening sale, 6 July 2011, lot 39; purchased by the National Trust for £157,250 with a grant of £61,328 from the Art Fund and with funds from Dunham Massey and from gifts and bequests to the National Trust.
Makers and roles
attributed to Robert Peake the elder (c.1551 – 1619), publisher previously catalogued as attributed to Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (Bruges 1561/2 - London 1636), publisher
References
Bruijn de, Laing, Purcell, Rothwell and Rowell 2012 'Acquisitions' in National Trust Historic Houses & Collections Annual, Apollo 2012, p. 62