Master of the Countess of Warwick

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Master of the Countess of Warwick: Portrait of Susan Bertie, 1567

As the master of the Countess of Warwick ( English Master of the Countess of Warwick) is a painter unknown by name, who worked in England during the Tudor period . The artist, who is not known by name, was given his emergency name after his portrait of Anne Russell, Countess of Warwick , which is now in Woburn Abbey .

In addition to the portrait of the Countess of Warwick, the Master of the Countess of Warwick created several other portraits of noble women in oil between 1567 and 1569. He also depicted entire noble families such as William Brooke, tenth Lord Cobham, with family. The pictures give an insight into the clothing and the self-image of the nobility in the Tudor period. In the pictures of women, symbols such as carnations as a sign of loyalty or oak leaves as a sign of permanence represent the contemporary understanding of female virtues, with gold rings, chains and other valuable jewelry as well as elegantly decorated clothes, for example, on the meaning and wealth of the painted People pointed out. Possibly the pictures of the younger women were engagement pictures.

In museums such as Woburn Abbey or the Tate Collection in England you can find paintings by the Countess of Warwick's master , and recently privately owned paintings have been offered at auctions a few times. For example, a 1565 portrait of Maria Potter, wife of Thomas Potter, attributed to the master’s environment, was sold by an English auction house in April 2012 for the sum of 107,500 British pounds. It was privately owned and had been brought up for sale by a Devon woman who had previously bought it at an antique market for only £ 500 and it could subsequently be identified as the master's work.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ R. Strong; The English Icon . London, New York 1969
  2. ↑ cf. for example G. Sjogren: Portrait of a young lady, 1569; an identification . In: Burlington Magazine, 10/1980, pp. 698-700
  3. ^ Tate Gallery Report, 1960-61, pp. 16-17
  4. ↑ Portrait of a lady in a black dress, Sotheby's London auction house, July 4, 2001, lot 8
  5. ↑ Portrait of a Lady, Sotheby's London auction house, July 10, 1996 Lot 11
  6. ↑ Maria Potter, painted in the style of the Countess of Warwick's master, auction catalog of the auction on April 20, 2012 Lot: 1829, Lawrences Auctioneers (Crewkerne) Somersett 2012
  7. ^ Past Master pays off , The Times, May 11, 2012, p. 23
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Countess of Warwick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Master of the Countess of Warwick (English)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English painter
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH 16th century or 17th century