Peake takes highest price with Elizabethan portrait
A portrait by Robert Peake the Elder (c.1551-1619) was the top lot at the Bonhams (28/27% buyer’s premium) Old Master Paintings sale in London on July 1.
The 3ft x 2ft 5in (91 x 75cm) oil on panel depicted Catherine Howard, Countess of Nottingham, a prom…