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7 août 2009

Robert Peake (c. 1551-1619). Peregrine Bertie, Lord Willoughby de Eresby (1555-1601), circa 1588-90.

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Robert Peake (c. 1551-1619). Peregrine Bertie, Lord Willoughby de Eresby (1555-1601), circa 1588-90.

Oil on panel. Inscribed with the Lumley cartellino centre left.  Only recently correctly identified our portrait, with its distinctive cartellino, depicts. Height : 61.00 cm. Width : 50.50 cm. Price on application.

Note: Peregrine Bertie, Lord Willoughby de Eresby (1555-1601), one of the great military commanders and heroes of his time, as well as a trusted envoy for Elizabethan I. The painted cartellino, or label (middle left), helped to identify this painting as once belonging to John, 1st Lord Lumley and as such, it formed part of the most celebrated art collection in England in the sixteenth century. (1) Lumley amassed through a combination of inheritance, astute purchase and commission, one of the greatest collections outside that of the Royal Court, consisting of sculpture, painting and books and the collection grew into a gallery of almost all the notable figures of the Tudor dynasty, so it is apt that Lord Willoughby (as he was generally called) should be included in this great collection.

Willoughby's qualities of leadership and their recognition by his sovereign and peers were rewarded not only by his commands in the Low Countries and France but also by his appointment as Governor of Bergen-op-Zoom (1586-7) and Governorship of Berwick-on-Tweed (1597-1601). His valour, chiefly exhibited in the war in the Netherlands and France, but especially at the siege of Bergen, excited more admiration on the part of his contemporaries than that of most other soldiers of his time. (2) The spirited ballad of ‘Brave Lord Willoughbies' tells of one episode during Willoughby's exploits in Flanders.

Exhibitions: New Gallery, Exhibition of the Royal House of Tudor, 1890, no. 322, illustrated opposite p. 112 (as 'Sir Francis Drake' by Pourbus).

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