Courting Favour: From Elizabeth I to James I, Tudor & Jacobean Portraits, 1560 - 1625

~ From Elizabeth I to James I ~ 2. Anne Clifford, The Diary of 1616 - 1619, ed. Katherine O. Acheson, (op. cit.), p. 155. In 2013 The Weiss Gallery rediscovered the portrait of Anne by Larkin as mentioned in her diary and gifted to her cousin, Margaret Hall. It was sold to the National Portrait Gallery, London, where it hangs today.

3. See Edward Town, PhD thesis A House Re-edified: Thomas Sackville and the transformation of Knole 1605-1608, chapter 6: http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=2&uin=uk.bl.ethos.554612 4. Edward Town, March 2014 at Knole at the ‘Understanding British Portraiture Seminar’, The Rake's patronage. He also notes the possibility that this is a Larkin product of c.1612, i.e. a posthumous portrait of the 1st Earl made from the established portrait type of c. 1600, with a new portrait of his secretary, John Suckling (1569 - 1627). It is not known whether Suckling remained in the service of the Sackvilles after the sudden death in 1608 of his patron, the 1st Earl of Dorset, though he received a gift of a jewel in a late addition to the latter’s will. See: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/ suckling-john-1569-1627 5. College of Arms Ms: EDN 57/399, blazoned as ‘Argent on a Bend Gules an Helmet in the dexter point Or the bever clos.e’A Bever or Beaver is an old term for the visor of a helmet.

6. The borough of Lewes was largely self-governing with a seal of its own and two constables chosen annually on the Monday after Michaelmas. A ‘court of all the town’, attended by the free and customary tenants and the lords’ officers, met twice a year, but day-to-day administration was exercised by the Twelve and Twenty-Four, bodies whose membership usually exceeded these figures. The constables levied a general rate to meet borough expenses, including the payment of parliamentary wages: the sum collected varied according to the need. Accounts kept by the constables survive from 1542.

7. The History and Antiquities of Lewes and its Vicinity, vol. I, T. Walker Horsfield, G.A. Mantell & J. Baxter ed., 1824, Lewes.

Cat. no. 20 1. As Lord Chancellor of England, Thomas had famously objected to Henry VIII’s claim to be Supreme Head of the Church in England, leading to his execution at Tower Hill for High Treason in 1535. Although not formally beatified by Pope Leo XIII until 1886, Thomas was instantly considered a Christian martyr, and soon served as a potent symbol of religious and political resistance and loyalty for the recusant English Catholics, notably for his grandson Thomas II More (1531 - 1606) and great-grandson Christopher Cresacre.

2. It is recorded that in 1390 the manor was held by a certain John More. Sir Thomas More is said to have written his Utopia there.

3. 3A facsimile edition was printed in 1971 by Scolar Press, Menston, Yorkshire.

4. A smaller scale bust portrait of Cresacre, likely derivative from this portrait, was formerly with The Weiss Gallery and published in our 2004 catalogue icons of splendour as no 13.

Cat. no. 21 1. R. Strong, Henry Prince of Wales and England’s Lost Renaissance, London 1986, p. 88.

2. Ibid., p. 91, Lotti to Vinta, 13 July 1611.

3. J. Nicholls, The progresses, processions and magnificent festivities of King James the First, his royal consort, family and court, London 1828, vol.II, p.33.

Cat. no. 22 1. Uffington House, Lincolnshire, was built in about 1681 and burnt down in 1904 2. Cockayne was knighted on 8th June 1616 3. G.E. Cokayne (Ed.) The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13, page 516 93