Lot 8: Robert Peake (c. 1551-1619 ?London)

Robert Peake (c. 1551-1619 ?London)
Portrait of William Pope, 1st Earl of Downe (1573-1631), full-length, in his robes as a Knight of the Bath, under an arch opening onto a courtyard
oil on canvas
84 5/8 x 46 5/8 in. (214 x 117.7 cm.)

London, Tate Gallery, The Elizabethan Image, 1969, no.108.

L. Cust, 'Marcus Gheeraerdts', The Walpole Society, III, 1914, p. 32, pl. XVIII (a).
R. Strong, 'Forgotten Age of English Painting, Portraits at Cowdray and Parham, Sussex', Country Life Annual, 1966, p. 47, fig. 6.
R. Strong, The English Icon, Elizabeth & Jacobean Portraiture, London, 1969, p. 244, no. 218.
A Catalogue of Pictures and Drawings in the Collection of the Viscount Cowdray, C. Anson ed., privately printed, 1971, p. 8-9, no. 26, pl. 6, (in the Buck Hall).
J. Cornforth, 'Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire', Country Life, 3 September, 1981, p. 771, fig. 5.
J. Cornforth, 'Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire - III', Country Life, 24 September 1981, pp. 1011-2, fig. 4. [the fig. is a reproduction of a watercolour which shows the painting hanging on the West Wall of the Great Hall at Wroxton].
R. Strong, 'How James I was Crowned', Country Life, 22 May 2003, pp. 106-9, fig. 3.

By descent through the sitter's granddaughter Lady Frances Pope, daughter of Thomas, 3rd Earl of Downe (d. 1667) and co-heiress of her brother Thomas, 4th Earl of Downe (d. 1668), who married Francis North, 1st Baron Guilford (1637-1685), and by descent in the collection of the Earls of Guilford at Wroxton Abbey, which passed in 1671 to Sir Francis North, and by descent to
William, 11th Baron North (1836-1932); Christie's, London, 11 July 1930, lot 65, as by Marc Gheeraerts (200 gns. to Colnaghi).
with Leggatt, London, 1931, from whom aquired by Harold, 2nd Viscount Cowdray, and by descent at Cowdray Park.

PROPERTY FROM COWDRAY PARK, SOLD ON INSTRUCTION OF THE VISCOUNT COWDRAY AND HIS TRUSTEES (LOTS 7-11)

Robert Peake (c. 1551-1619 ?London)
Portrait of William Pope, 1st Earl of Downe (1573-1631), full-length, in his robes as a Knight of the Bath, under an arch opening onto a courtyard
oil on canvas
84 5/8 x 46 5/8 in. (214 x 117.7 cm.)