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Circle of Robert Peake the Elder (c.1551-1619) British. Portrait of Susan Greene, Mrs Richard Knatchbull (d.1610), Oil on Canvas, Unframed 42.5 x 33.25" (107.8 x 84.5cm). Provenance: By descent in the family collection of the sitter, to Patricia, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1924-2017); her posthumous sale, London, Sothebys 24th March 2020, lot 107. Literature: C. Huggins, Catalogue of Portraits at Mersham Le Hatch, Kent, May 1920, no. 1 (Knatchbull Papers, Kent Archives, Maidstone U951 E14 U951 Z54-3). Notes: The sitter was the daughter of Thomas Greene of Bobbing in Essex, grandson of Sir Thomas Norton of Milton. She was the second wife of Richard Knatchbull (1525-82), son of John Knatchbull and his wife Alice Fowle. They had three sons: Norton (later knighted) Thomas and George.
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