Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester (1563-1626)
Note the work cited at Longleat forms a probable match with he seventeenth-century record
Van der Doort c.1639
WS 197, № 15
Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
Earl of Leicester, all in black, holding a pair of gloves in his left hand, a red table and curtain nearby
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
6ft 10in x 4ft 5in (208.3 x 134.6cm)
Provenance:
Anne of Denmark
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
inherited
Location:
Room description extended:
The Queen's Gallery: Anne of Denmark's Gallery with 37 pictures left by her, inventory dated 1639 [last digit seems to be written over a 4]
Original Manuscript page number:
MS. Ash. 1514, f. 186
Identification certainty:
Probable
Sale Inventory c.1649-51