English Oil Painting Portrait Sir Walter Raleigh C18th Century Gilt Framed After the Celebrated Lennard Type

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Georgian English School Sir Walter Raleigh Portrait With Historic FY 730 Mark After the Celebrated Lennard Type

An Intimate 18th-Century … Read more Georgian English School Sir Walter Raleigh Portrait With Historic FY 730 Mark After the Celebrated Lennard Type

An Intimate 18th-Century Oil-on-Panel Portrait Combining Elizabethan Iconography, Georgian Collecting Taste and Documented Provenance

Highlights

English School, 18th century.
Historic portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh.
Oil on wood panel.
Related to the later Lennard portrait tradition.
Rich red costume, white ruff and dramatic feathered hat.
Historic verso inventory mark **FY 730**.
Documented Woolley & Wallis provenance.
Subsequently museum exhibited.
Decorative aged gilt frame.
Ideal for a library, study, gallery wall or collected country-house interior.

Description

A wonderfully evocative 18th-century English School portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh, one of the most celebrated personalities of Elizabethan England.

Raleigh appears bust-length within a painted oval wearing a sumptuous red garment, elaborate white ruff and broad black feathered hat.

The composition relates to the later portrait tradition surrounding the celebrated “Lennard Type” of Raleigh, whose likeness continued to circulate through paintings and engravings long after his lifetime.

The reverse bears the historic black stencilled inventory mark **FY 730**. Its original collection, dealer or auction-house source remains unidentified and is retained as an intriguing provenance research lead.

Historical Context

Sir Walter Raleigh was courtier, soldier, explorer, writer and poet.

Knighted by Elizabeth I in 1585, he became associated with England's early overseas ambitions and attempts to establish settlements in North America.

Following the accession of James I, Raleigh spent many years imprisoned in the Tower of London and was eventually executed in 1618.

His remarkable life ensured that his likeness remained desirable to later generations of British collectors.

Provenance

Private Southern England collection, according to accompanying documentation.

Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury, *Old Masters, British & European Paintings*, 5 March 2025, Lot 156.

Acquired by Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD®.

Subsequently exhibited at the Famous Lord Hill Museum, Shropshire.

Verso bearing historic black stencilled inventory mark **FY 730**, presently unidentified.

Dimensions framed

Height: 29.5 cm / 11.6 in

Width: 24.5 cm / 9.6 in

Depth: 3.2 cm / 1.3 in


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