Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Isaac Oliver, ca. 1565–1617, French, active in Britain
Title:
Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex
Date:
ca. 1596
Materials & Techniques:
Gouache and gray ink on parchment laid onto card
Dimensions:
Frame: 3 x 2 1/2 x 5/8 inches (7.6 x 6.4 x 1.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on back of frame center: "Robert Devereux | Earl of Essex | Isaac Oliver"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1974.2.75
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors-Miniatures
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
portrait
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill (Yale Center for British Art, 2009-10-15 - 2010-01-03)

Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill (Victoria and Albert Museum, 2010-03-06 - 2010-07-04)

An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)

An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)

Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)

English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17)
Publications:
John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, no. 3, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

British Art at Yale, Apollo, vol.105, April 1977, p. 238, fig. 1, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Christie's sale catalogue : A life's devotion : the collection of the late Mrs. T.S. Eliot : 20 November 2013, Christie's, 2v., London, Wednesday 20 November 2013, p. 136, Auction Cat 2013 November (YCBA)

Earl of Derby's Miniatures on loan to the Manchester Art Galleries, Connoisseur, vol. 141, June 1958, pp. 44-46, J10 +C762 (SML)

Elizabeth Goldring, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and the world of Elizabethan art : painting and patronage at the court of Elizabeth I, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2014, p. 238, fig. 205, N5247.L45 G65 2014 (YCBA)

Karen Hearn, Dynasties, painting in Tudor and Jacobean England, 1530-1630 , Tate Publishing, London, 1995, 178-179, N6765 D95 1995 + (YCBA)

Patrick Noon, English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures, Yale Center for British Art, 1979, p. 4, no. 2, fig. 2, NC772 N66+ (Wall Shelf) (YCBA)

Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 3, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Cathy J. Reed, Not Northumberland but Essex: Identifying the sitter in two miniatures by Nicholas Hilliard, British Art Journal, vol. 16, London, 2015, p. 93, Fig. 12, N6761 +B74 (YCBA)

Cynthia Roman, Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2009, pp. 184, 319, cat.no. 178, fig. 211, N5247 W25 H67 2009 + (YCBA)

Ellis Waterhouse, An Impressive Panorama of British Portraiture, Apollo, v. 105, no. 182, April 1977, p. 238, fig. 1, N1 A54 + (YCBA) Another copy of this article may be found in a separately bound and catalogued copy of this issue located on the Mellon Shelf [call number : N5220 M552 A7 1977 + (YCBA)]
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:11628