Collection Online as of March 28, 2023

(English, c. 1547–1619)

Watercolor on vellum in a gilt metal frame

Framed: 5.2 x 4.8 cm (2 1/16 x 1 7/8 in.); Unframed: 4.9 x 4.4 cm (1 15/16 x 1 3/4 in.)

Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Belden Greene 1960.39

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

inscribed from left: Ano, Dm. 1576: / AEtatis Suae; 39.

Provenance

family of the sitter, to the Earls of Carlisle, Castle Howard. Viscount Morpeth (Sotheby's London sale Mary 14, 1959, lot 114). (Agnew, 1960). Purchased by Mrs. A. Dean Perry from Thos. Agnew & Sons, Ltd., 2/16/60 for £3,400.00 as "An Elizabethan Gallant".

Citations

"Front Matter." The Burlington Magazine 101, no. 674 (May 1959): I-Xlvi. Reproduced: p. iii

Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review 1960." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art XLVII, no. 10 (December, 1960): 222-255. Reproduced: p. 241; Mentioned: p. 253, no. 60

Auerbach, Erna. Nicholas Hilliard. London: Routledge & Paul, 1961.

Francis, Henry S. "Nicholas Hilliard: Portrait of an Elizabethan Gallant." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XLVIII, no. 1 (January, 1961): 10-11, Reproduced: p. 11

Comstock, Helen. "Connoisseur in America." The Connoisseur 147, no. 1 (November 1961): 263-264. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 263

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and Detroit Institute of Arts. The World of Shakespeare, 1564-1616: An Exhibition Organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Detroit Institute of Arts to Commemorate the Fourth Centenary of the Birth of William Shakespeare. Richmond, Va: The Museum, 1964. Mentioned: cat. no. 31, p. 30, Reproduced: p. 33

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 105 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 105 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 123 archive.org

Foskett, Daphne. Collecting Miniatures. Woodbridge, Eng: Antique Collectors' Club, 1979. p. 54

Strong, Roy C., and V. J. Murrell. Artists of the Tudor Court: The Portrait Miniature Rediscovered, 1520-1620 : 9 July-6 November 1983, the Victoria & Albert Museum. [London]: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1983. Mentioned: cat. no. 66, Reproduced

Foskett, Daphne. Miniatures: Dictionary and Guide. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 1987. p. 54

Reynolds, Graham. The Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen. London: Royal Collection, 1999.

Korkow, Cory, and Dario Robleto. Disembodied: Portrait Miniatures and Their Contemporary Relatives. 2013. Mentioned: p. 9, 85, Reproduced: p. 49

Korkow, Cory, and Jon L. Seydl. British Portrait Miniatures: The Cleveland Museum of Art. 2013. Cat. no. 1; pp. 31-34

Exhibition history

Main Gallery Rotation (Gallery 202):September 22, 2008 - January 5, 2009.

Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961).

The World of Shakespeare, 1564-1616. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (organizer) (January 9-February 16, 1964).

The World of Shakespeare. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA (organizer) (January 9-February 16, 1964).

Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).

Artists of the Tudor Court: The Portrait Miniature Rediscovered 1520-1620. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (July 4-November 6, 1983).

Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-October 17, 1993).

Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 10, 2013-February 16, 2014).

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of Charles Howard, 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham, later 1st Earl of Nottingham

Nicholas Hilliard

Location

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