Tag: William Mitford

Auction Industry

Rothschilds' portrait of young Elizabethan adventurer falsely accused of being part of the Gunpowder Plot comes to aucti

Portrait of Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, (1560-1639) consigned from Exbury House with an estimate of £10,000-15,000. Painted by George Gower (c.1540-96), the 23¾ x 20in oil on panel is inscribed for 1580, when the sitter would have been aged 20. SALISBURY.- He was created a count by the…