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HANS HOLBEIN THE YOUNGER (1497/8-1543)

Margaret, Lady Elyot (d. 1560)

c.1532-4

RCIN 912204

This drawing of Lady Elyot (c.1500 –60) is a pair to the portrait of her husband. Both were presumably made as studies for oil paintings although none have survived. Margaret Elyot is shown wearing an elaborate velvet English hood, fashionable in this period.
  • watermark: Briquet 1050: fleurs de lys and other in a crowned shield [same as 12247]


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