Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Robert Peake the Elder, ca. 1551–1619, British
Title:
Portrait of a Woman, possibly Elizabeth Pope (ca. 1585; living 1624)
Date:
ca. 1615
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Frame: 36 × 29 3/8 × 2 1/2 inches (91.4 × 74.6 × 6.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in yellow paint, center left: "Eliz. Wife of Edwd I Ld Montagu of Boughton | Dar. of Sr. Iohn Ieffery | Ld. Chief Baron of the | Exchequer."; Label on verso, upper left: “[underlined] Robert Peake | Elizabeth, Wife of Lord | Montagu of Boughton. | On loan from Hugh Leggatt. | (Lent anonymously) - Leggatt. | Bros. 30 St. James St, S.W.1. | Registrar, April, 1970.”; upper right: “Tate Gallery 145 | Artist <...> Title | Owner Date | Address Robert P[...] | Reason for arrival Leggatt”; upper right: “Fanfare for Europe | British Art Market | 1973 Exhibition | No: 21”; lower left: “[handwritten] B-15S | [typed] Owner | The Yale Center for British Arts | and British Studies (12/26/74) | Artist Peake, The Elder, | Robert | Title Portrait of a Lady | National Gallery of Art PM 7407”
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1974.3.31
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
feather | Tudor | costume | lace | Jacobean | gray | woman | portrait | curtains | jewelry
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Hearst The Collector (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2008-11-09 - 2009-02-01)
Publications:
C. H. Collins Baker, Lely & the Stuart Portrait Painters : a study of English portraiture before & after Van Dyck, vol. 1, London, 1912, pp. 76-79, ND1314 B25 + (YCBA)

C. H. Collins Baker, Lely & the Stuart Portrait Painters : a study of English portraiture before & after Van Dyck, vol. 2, London, 1912, p. 113, cat. 7, ND1314 B25 + (YCBA)

Christie's sale catalogue : Pictures by old Masters : 23 & 24 October 1969, Christie's, London, 1969, lot. 281, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 176-177, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)

Mary L. Levkoff, Hearst, the Collector, New York, 2008, pp. 97, 99, 239-40, cat. 130, N5220 H437 L48 2008 + (HAAS)
Gallery Label:
Despite the later and erroneous inscription, this young woman wears fashions from the later 1610s and bears a striking resemblance to portraits of Elizabeth Watson, the daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Watson of Halstead in Kent. Portraits were often painted to mark significant events in a life, and this example may mark her marriage to Sir William Pope (1596–1624) of Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire, in 1615. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:189