museums and institutions:
Attributed works:
1. Portrait of a lady, here identified as Frances Walsingham, Lady
Sidney, and here attributed to Robert Peake the Elder, with a slightly
later campaign by another artist (William Segar?). c.1584–85?.
Oil on panel, 92.5 by 75.6 cm. (Parham House, West Sussex;
photograph Courtauld Institute of Art, London).
Attributed works:
10a. MA-XRF elemental map of mercury in red overlaid on a detail
of Fig.1, showing the distribution of presumably vermilion pigment
in the outlining design underlying the column motif and the fasteners
on bodice. (Courtauld Institute of Art, London).
Attributed works:
10b. MA-XRF elemental map of copper in blue overlaid on a detail of
Fig.1, showing the distribution of presumably azurite pigment in the
pearls. Due to the painting’s condition, the source of copper-containing
areas underlying the single pearls atop the columns remains unclear.
(Courtauld Institute of Art, London).
Attributed works:
11. Lord Robert Dudley, later Earl of Leicester, attributed to Steven
van der Meulen. c.1563, with later additions by another artist to reflect
Dudley’s elevation to the peerage (1564) and his induction into the Ordre
de St-Michel (1566). Oil on panel, 107 by 80 cm. (Rothschild Family Trust,
on loan to Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire).
Attributed works:
12. Portrait of a woman, traditionally identified as Mary Clopton (born
Waldegrave), of Kentwell Hall, Suffolk, by Robert Peake the Elder. c.1600.
Oil on panel, 113.7 by 88.3 cm. (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).
Attributed works:
13. Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, with the Lord Steward’s
staff, by William Segar. 1587–88. Oil on panel. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
14. Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, by William Segar. 1590.
Oil on panel, 112 by 86 cm. (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin).
Attributed works:
2. Frances Walsingham, Lady Sidney, attributed to Robert Peake
the Elder. c.1586–90. Oil on panel, 85 by 73.9 cm. (Fine Arts Museum
San Francisco).
Attributed works:
3. Portrait of an unknown lady, by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1595. Watercolour
on vellum, 18.2 by 12.2 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Bridgeman
Images).
Attributed works:
4. Detail of Fig.1, showing the ruff with the ragged staves and snakes.
(Courtauld Institute of Art, London).
Attributed works:
5. Detail of Fig.1, showing the muff with column and arrows. (Courtauld
Institute of Art, London).
Attributed works:
6. Emblematic device with inscribed ‘si Deus nobifcum, quis contra nos’
(‘if God is with us, who can be against us?’). (From Geoffrey Wittney,
A Choice of Emblemes, and Other Devises, Leiden 1586).
Attributed works:
7. The bear and ragged staff emblem of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester,
with the motto ‘droit et loyal’, armorial bookbinding stamp, 5.3 by 4.3
cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
8. Double Leicester rijksdaalder. Minted in Utrecht. 1587. Silver, 58.44
grams. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
9a. X-radiograph detail of the portrait in Fig.1 (Courtauld Institute
of Art, London).
Attributed works:
9b. X-radiograph detail of the portrait in Fig.2, with cradle interference
suppressed with Elvacite 2046. (Paintings Conservation Department,
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco).
