Portrait of a Couple, said to be John Tradescant the Elder and his Wife Elizabeth

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This portrait is said to have been in Tradescant's house in Lambeth before it was demolished in 1881. Here, John Tradescant the Elder (d.1638) established the first physic garden in England. Elizabeth Day (b.1573/86) married John Tradescant the Elder in 1607. No other portraits of Mrs Tradescant survive and the identification of both sitters remains doubtful.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Oxford

Title

Portrait of a Couple, said to be John Tradescant the Elder and his Wife Elizabeth

Date

c. 1630

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 73 x W 117 cm

Accession number

WA1924.12

Acquisition method

Presented by the Misses E. Dora and Annie C. Thorne, 1924

Work type

Painting

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