Follower of George Gower

(British, 1540-1596)

Portrait of an Elizabethan Man, Possibly Edmund Huddleston, 1562

oil on panel

dated and with abbreviated Latin inscription ANO DNI [anno domini] 1562 - AE. SVAE. [anno aetatis suae – in the year of his/her age] 25 (upper left) MENS. NOVEMB / SEXTO [mense Novembris sexto – month of November, the 6th] (upper right); and coat of arms reading SOLI DEO HONOR ET GLORIA [to the one God honor and glory] (center left)

17 1/8 x 12 3/8 inches.

Provenance:

Acquired by Aline Mary Margaret (Elwes) McDonnell in London

Note:

Bears a label on the verso suggesting an attribution to Hans Eworth (Flemish, 1540-1574).

The present portrait bears the inscription, Soli Deo Honor Et Gloria, the motto of the Huddleston family, a family of personal soldiers for Queen Mary I of England. Edmund Huddleston of Sawston in Cambridgeshire succeeded his father, Sir John, in 1557, and became a ‘schismatic’, or partial conformer under Elizabeth I’s Protestant rule, while his son, Henry harboured the Jesuit John Gerard at Sawston in 1594.

Pictured:

An 1807 engraving of Copped Hall, S. Rawle from a drawing by S. Shepherd.

Aline Elwes McDonnell and Family, circa 1954.

﻿Portrait of an Elizabethan Man, Possibly Edmund Huddleston, 1562

Portrait of an Elizabethan Man, Possibly Edmund Huddleston, 1562