Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Robert Peake the Elder, ca. 1551–1619, British

Formerly attributed to Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, 1561–1635, Flemish, active in Britain (from 1568)
Title:
Portrait of a Woman, Traditionally Identified as Mary Clopton (born Waldegrave), of Kentwell Hall, Suffolk
Date:
ca. 1600
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
44 3/4 x 34 3/4 inches (113.7 x 88.3 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1974.3.6
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
pearls | costume | Tudor | Elizabethan | portrait | pomegranate | woman | roses (plant) | corn
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
"Brilliant Effects" [ Jewels ] (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-07-10 - 2004-01-10)
Publications:
Christie's sale catalogue : Pictures by old masters : 22 May 1936, Christie's, May 22, 1936, p. 9, lot 38, Fiche B51 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 102-103, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)

Elizabethan and Jacobean portraits : Yale Center for British Art permanent collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2007, p. 13, Vertical File V2122

Diana Scarisbrick, Jewellery in Tudor and Jacobean Portraits at New Haven, Apollo, vol. 126,, November 1987, pp. 330-1, N1 A54 + (YCBA)

Sotheby's, Sotheby's sale catalogue : Fine old master paintings : 8 May 1974, Sotheby's, London, May 8, 1974, p. 6, lot 7, pl. II, Fiche B18 (YCBA)

Ian Tyers, The tree-ring analysis of 23 panel paintings from the Yale Center for British Art , New Haven : dendrochronological consultancy report 470, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2011, p. 15, 16, 29-31, fig. 9, CC78.3 .T94 2011 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
The identification is doubtful: Mary Waldegrave (d. 1598) was the wife of Thomas Clopton of Kentwell Hall, Melford, Suffolk (d. 1596). Costume and jewels suggest a date nearer 1600. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2005
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:167