Anne Stanhope, Duchess of Somerset (?1497-1587), aged 16 (in the manner of Bernaert van Orley)
Thomas Youngman Gooderson (fl.1846 - 1868)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1846 - 1868
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
508 x 406 mm (20 x 16 in)
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485062
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Anne Stanhope, Duchess of Somerset (?1497-1587), aged 16 (in the manner of Bernaert van Orley) by Thomas Youngerman Gooderson (fl.1846-1868), inscribed across top of painting: THE . DVTCHES . OF . SOMERSET . / ÆTATIS . HER . GRACE, / SVE . I6. A head-and-shoulders portrait of a young woman, turned slightly to the right, gazing to the right, wearing a white coif, brown dress, with dark brown fur collar and with a small chain round her neck and hanging chain tucked into the white triangle of her bodice. The original at Syon House looks Flemish c.1530-90 but is probably not of an English sitter.
Provenance
Apparently in the collection of the 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751-1837) by 1835. By descent to the current Lord Egremont. On loan from the Egremont Private Collection
Credit line
Petworth House, The Egremont Collection
Marks and inscriptions
THE DVTCHES OF SOMERSET / AETATIS / HER GRACE / SVE 16 (front top)
Makers and roles
Thomas Youngman Gooderson (fl.1846 - 1868), artist manner of Bernaert van Orley (Brussels c.1488 - Brussels c.1541), artist