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Portrait of a Lady
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Portrait of a Lady

by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger

Date: c.1615-18

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Item details

  • Acquisition

    Cartwright Bequest, 1686

  • Accession number

    DPG389

  • Artist

    Marcus Gheeraerts the younger

  • Date

    c.1615-18

  • Dimensions

    114 x 83.5 cm

  • Inscription

    Inscribed bottom left, in yellow: [Q]n Elizabet[h]. Probably added in the eighteenth century.

  • Materials

    Oil on oak panel

One of Cartwright's finest portraits, this painting was called in 1813 Queen Elizabeth by Zuccera, but the Qn Elizabeth inscription was evidently added in the eighteenth century. The pose is matched, in reverse, by the Gheeraerts portrait of Lady Scudamore dated 1615 in the National Gallery (64).

Portrait of a Lady

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