Details
English School, circa 1600
A Lady, facing left in black dress with high lace ruff and red ribbon rosettes, her fair hair adorned with matching rosettes on a blue ground
on vellum, gold frame with twisted rope border and spiral cresting, the reverse with a portrait of Christ, oil on copper
oval, 2 in. (50mm.) high
A Lady, facing left in black dress with high lace ruff and red ribbon rosettes, her fair hair adorned with matching rosettes on a blue ground
on vellum, gold frame with twisted rope border and spiral cresting, the reverse with a portrait of Christ, oil on copper
oval, 2 in. (50mm.) high
Provenance
J. Pierpont Morgan, sold Christie's, 25 June 1935, lot 105 as Portrait of Queen Elizabeth when young by Nicholas Hilliard (48 gns. to A. Walker)
Literature
G. C. Williamson, Catalogue of the Collection of Miniatures, the property of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906, I, no. 18