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FOLLOWER OF ANTONIS MOR
Portrait of a gentleman, traditionally identified as Philip II of Spain (1527-1598), bust-length, in a black doublet, holding a pair of gloves
oil on panel
1312 x 1014 in. (34.3 x 26 cm.)
Provenance
(Traditionally) Katherine of Aragon (1485-1536), Buckden Palace, Cambridgeshire, and later Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire.
The Dukes of Manchester, Kimbolton Castle, and by descent to,
Alexander Drogo Montagu, 10th Duke of Manchester (1902-1977), and by inheritance to the present owner.
Literature
William Montagu, Court and society from Elizabeth to Anne : Edited from the papers at Kimbolton, London, 1864, p. 3.
Consuelo Montagu, Duchess of Manchester (1853-1909), Catalogue of the Pictures at Kimbolton Castle, p. 10, no. 96, in the Green Drawing Room.
Exhibited
London, The New Gallery, Exhibition of the Royal House of Tudor, 1890, no. 198.
Special notice
Please note this lot is the property of a consumer. See H1 of the Conditions of Sale.
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