About the Artwork
Sir William Brereton, 1579
1579
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English
English
Oil on cradled wood panel
Unframed: 40 7/8 × 29 inches (103.8 × 73.7 cm) Framed: 43 7/16 × 31 7/8 × 1 5/8 inches (110.3 × 81 × 4.1 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund
50.194
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, upper left: 1579 | PICTVRA GVLIELMI | BRERETON MILITIS | HVIVS DOMI CODITORIS | AN AE SVAE 28
Provenance
Sir William Brereton (London, England)
by descent to Brereton family
by descent to Mr. H. Brereton Trelawny
by descent to Trelawny family
Miss P. Trelawny (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1950-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Third and Concluding Exhibition of National Portraits, Commencing With the Fortieth Year of the Reign of George III and Ending the Year of 1867. Exh. cat., Victoria and Albert Museum. London, 1868, no. 682, p. 139. [as by Lucas de Heere.]
Hackenbroch, Y. Renaissance Jewelry. New York, 1979, pp. 294-295.
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English, Sir William Brereton, 1579, 1579, oil on cradled wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund, 50.194.
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