ENGLISH SCHOOL (16TH CENTURY)PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, TRADITIONALLY IDENTIFIED AS RALPH NEVILL, EARL OF WESTMORLANDOil on panelInscribed (lower left and right): RALPH NEVILL / Earl of Westmorland /DIED 153251.5 x 43.3cm (20¼ x 17 in.)Provenance:By descent in the family of the sitterColonel Francis William Henry Fane, 12th Earl of Westmorland (1825-1891), Apethorpe Hall, NorthamptonshireHis posthumous sale, London, Christie's, 2 June 1892, lot 48Captain F. SpicerWith Frost & Reed Ltd, London and BristolSale, Plainfield, New Hampshire, William Smith Auctions, lot 232 (this and the above two lines according to a label on the reverse)Where presumably acquired by the present owner