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MONTACUTE HOUSE
ROOM 4
Portraits on display
Sir Nathaniel Bacon
1585?-1627
Country gentleman and painter
by Sir Nathaniel Bacon
circa 1625
oil on panel, feigned oval
22 5/8 in. x 17 1/2 in. (575 mm x 445 mm)
NPG 2142
William Camden
1551-1623
Antiquary and historian
by or after Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
17th century (1609)
oil on panel
22 1/4 in. x 16 1/2 in. (565 mm x 419 mm)
NPG 528
Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset
1536-1608
Poet and Lord Treasurer
attributed to John De Critz the Elder
1601
oil on panel
43 1/2 in. x 34 1/2 in. (1105 mm x 876 mm)
NPG 4024
John Fletcher
1579-1625
Dramatist
after Unknown artist
late 17th century (circa 1620)
oil on canvas
29 in. x 14 1/2 in. (737 mm x 368 mm)
NPG 420
Sir John Harington
1561-1612
Wit and writer; translator of 'Orlando Furioso'
attributed to Hieronimo Custodis
circa 1590-1595
oil on panel
22 1/2 in. x 18 1/8 in. (572 mm x 460 mm)
NPG 3121
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of
Cherbury
1583-1648
Diplomat and writer
possibly after Isaac Oliver
17th century? (circa 1603-1605)
oil on canvas, feigned oval
29 in. x 24 in. (737 mm x 610 mm)
NPG 487
Thomas Hobson
1544-1631
The Cambridge Carrier; perpetrator of 'Hobson's choice'
by Unknown artist
1629
oil on canvas
31 3/8 in. x 24 7/8 in. (797 mm x 632 mm)
NPG 1972
Benjamin Jonson
1573-1637
Poet and dramatist
after Abraham van Blyenberch
probably early 19th century (circa 1617)
oil on panel
14 1/2 in. x 11 3/8 in. (368 mm x 289 mm)
NPG 363
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
1550-1604
Courtier
after Unknown artist
17th century (1575)
oil on canvas
29 1/4 in. x 25 in. (743 mm x 635 mm)
NPG L111
Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury
1518-1608
'Bess of Hardwick'; wife of 6th Earl of Shrewsbury
by Unknown artist
probably 17th century (circa 1590)
oil on canvas
38 7/8 in. x 31 in. (988 mm x 787 mm)
NPG 203
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