ENGLISH SCHOOL 16TH CENTURY 81 by 64 cm., 32 by 25 1/4 in. DESCRIPTION inscribed u.l.: 8/14, and u.r.: GRATIA DEI SVM QVOD SVM oil on panel, in a British Renaissance style frame PROVENANCE Henry Labouchere, Baron Taunton (1798-1869), Quantock Lodge, Somerset; Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 13 April 1923, lot 21 (as by Zuccaro, Portrait of Lady Jane Grey, bt. Amor for £24.3.0) CATALOGUE NOTE The Latin inscription in the upper right of the present painting is a quotation from Augustine's 76th sermon, and translates as 'By the Grace of God I am who I am'. It was the motto of Nicholas West (d.1533), a diplomat and Bishop of Ely. A cultivated man, with an intellectual mind, West was also chaplain to Katherine of Aragon and one of her main supporters.