Lot 96: A young lady called Lady Arabella Stuart (1575-1615), in grey-embroidered lace dress with high-standing white lace collar, gold and drop-pearl pendant fastened at corsage, gold and pearl necklace, drop-pearl and gold earring adorned with black

NICHOLAS HILLIARD (BRITISH, 1547-1619) A young lady called Lady Arabella Stuart (1575-1615), in grey-embroidered lace dress with high-standing white lace collar, gold and drop-pearl pendant fastened at corsage, gold and pearl necklace, drop-pearl and gold earring adorned with black ribbon, gold and drop-pearl pendants and gauze scarf in her upswept and dressed fair hair; on blue ground within gold border on vellum oval, 2 1/8 in. (54 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with spiral cresting, the glazed reverse with ink drawing of various shapes within borders

London, South Kensington Museum, Special Exhibition of Works of Art, 1862, no. 2552 (as Lady Arabella Stuart), lent by Rev. William Maskell.
London, South Kensington Museum, Special Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures, 1865, no. 1009 (as Lady Arabella Stuart), lent by William Maskell.
London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures, 1889, Case XXI, no. 8 (as Lady Arabella Stuart by Isaac Oliver), lent by Major-General Sotheby.
London, 22 & 23 Grosvenor Place, A Loan Exhibition depicting the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, in aid of the Young Women's Christian Association, 1933, no. 495 (as Lady Arabella Stuart or Mrs. Holland, by N. Hilliard or I. Oliver), lent by Lt.-Col. H. G. Sotheby, D.S.O.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver, 1947, no. 69, illustrated pl. XIX (as called Lady Arabella Stuart), lent by Lt.-Col. H. G. Sotheby.
On loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1947-1955.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver, 1971, no. 69, illustrated pl. XIX (as called Lady Arabella Stuart).

Rev. William Maskell (c. 1814-1890) Collection.
Bought from Jeffery W. Whitehead by Charles Sotheby in 1868; and by descent.
The late Major-General Frederick Edward Sotheby; Sotheby's, London, 11 October 1955, lot 65 (as a Lady called Lady Arabella Stuart, £1,600 to Agnew).
Francis Denis Lycett Green (1893-1959).
Gifted to his niece, Ursula Vanda Maud (b. 1912), Countess of Glasgow. Thence by descent to the current owner.

PROPERTY OF A DESCENDANT OF SIR EDWARD LYCETT GREEN, 2ND BT. (1860-1934)