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Circle of Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen (London 1593-1661 Utrecht) Portrait of a gentleman, said to be Sir Henry Wotton, half-length, in a black doublet, and white ruff and cuffs, within a painted oval image 1
Circle of Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen (London 1593-1661 Utrecht) Portrait of a gentleman, said to be Sir Henry Wotton, half-length, in a black doublet, and white ruff and cuffs, within a painted oval image 2
Circle of Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen (London 1593-1661 Utrecht) Portrait of a gentleman, said to be Sir Henry Wotton, half-length, in a black doublet, and white ruff and cuffs, within a painted oval image 3
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Circle of Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen
(London 1593-1661 Utrecht)
Portrait of a gentleman, said to be Sir Henry Wotton, half-length, in a black doublet, and white ruff and cuffs, within a painted oval

Old Master Paintings
4 December 2024, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Circle of Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen (London 1593-1661 Utrecht)

Portrait of a gentleman, said to be Sir Henry Wotton, half-length, in a black doublet, and white ruff and cuffs, within a painted oval
oil on panel
77.1 x 60.4cm (30 3/8 x 23 3/4in).

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Provenance
Nicholas Kempe (1716-1774) and thence by descent to his granddaughter
Anne Eliza Bray, and thence by descent until offered
Sale, Christie's, London, 12 July 1990, lot 25 (as Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen), where purchased by the present owner's father

Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639), son of Thomas Wotton (1489-1551) and his second wife Elionora Finch of Bocton Hall, was secretary to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. He served as ambassador to Venice intermittently from 1604 to 1623, as well as to Savoy and The Hague; sat in the Houses of Commons in 1614 and 1625; and was appointed Provost of Eton in 1624 where he remained until he died. He continued to write poems and essays, and contributed fifteen poems to the Reliquiae Wottonianae, which was published posthumously in 1685.

There is a portrait of the sitter by an unknown artist at Eton College and a three-quarter-length portrait of Wotton by Michiel van Mierevelt was with the Weiss Gallery, London.

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