Circle of George Gower (c.1540-1596)
Circle of George Gower (c.1540-1596)

Portrait of a lady, three-quarter-length, in a white satin dress decorated with jewels including stiffened pearl dress ornaments, and a lace ruff, with pearl ornaments in her hair, wearing a diamond cross at her neck within a two strand pearl necklace, with jewelled gold chains looped around her bodice with pearl ropes in between, holding a fan in her right hand and a gilly flower in her left hand

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Circle of George Gower (c.1540-1596)
Portrait of a lady, three-quarter-length, in a white satin dress decorated with jewels including stiffened pearl dress ornaments, and a lace ruff, with pearl ornaments in her hair, wearing a diamond cross at her neck within a two strand pearl necklace, with jewelled gold chains looped around her bodice with pearl ropes in between, holding a fan in her right hand and a gilly flower in her left hand
oil on panel
36½ x 28 in. (92.7 x 71.1 cm.)
in a Dutch 17th Century ripple moulded ebonised frame

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