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Portrait of a Lady

Image credit: The National Gallery, London

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A richly dressed lady gazes out at us from this painting. We don't know who she is but the jewellery and fabrics she wears could only have been afforded by the exceptionally wealthy. The extravagance of her dress is comparable with that worn by royalty.

She was perhaps unmarried: she faces right, and if this portrait was part of a pair of a married couple the lady would usually have been on our right, facing left. Her clothes are French in style, but the transparent oversleeves she wears seem to have been fashionable in England in the 1560s and 1570s. It’s possible that she was not French but had adopted French fashions in dress, retaining her English oversleeves.

The National Gallery, London

London

Title

Portrait of a Lady

Date

1570-5

Medium

Oil on oak

Measurements

H 34.9 x W 25.4 cm

Accession number

NG2617

Acquisition method

Salting Bequest, 1910

Work type

Painting

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