PORTRAIT OF LORD MORLEY AND MONTEAGLE
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sin,—Would you kindly permit me to inquire through your columns about the portrait of Lord Monteagle, to whom the anonymous letter was sent warning him not to attend the meeting of Parliament, November 5th, 1605 ; and who was afterward Lord Morley and Monteagle ? The portrait, in a very ornate gilt frame, is on panel 43 by 32 inches, half-length, the figure hatless, bearded, with right hand closed on hip and the left hand pendant. He wears a wide, laced vandyked band or collar, and, a brown doublet and trunks, pearl embroidered. It was sold at Christie's in 1869 to a Bond Street dealer, who kept no account of its re-sale. Possibly one of your numerous readers may have noticed such a portrait in a collection. It can further be identified by a photograph taken of it in 1866, when it belonged to a Mr. John Webb. It was apparently not exhibited in the Stuart Exhibition, in 1889. It may have gone to America, where your paper might also reach it.
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