A young lady called Susanna Temple, Lady Thornhurst, in multi-coloured floral and gold-embroidered white dress with lace collar, pearl necklace with drop-pearl pendant and large drop-pearl earrings, floating gauze veil with lace border in her long auburn hair; on blue ground within scalloped gold border

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FOLLOWER OF NICHOLAS HILLIARD
A young lady called Susanna Temple, Lady Thornhurst, in multi-coloured floral and gold-embroidered white dress with lace collar, pearl necklace with drop-pearl pendant and large drop-pearl earrings, floating gauze veil with lace border in her long auburn hair; on blue ground within scalloped gold border
bearing initials 'N H' (mid-right)
on vellum
oval, 2 7/8 in. (73 mm.) high, silver-gilt frame with spiral cresting

Provenance

Francis Denis Lycett Green (1893-1959).
Gifted to his niece, Ursula Vanda Maud (b. 1912), Countess of Glasgow. Thence by descent to the current owner.

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Lot Essay

The backing card is inscribed 'Sussanna Temple Lady Thornhurst Maid of Honor to Ann of Denmark Queen of Ja's 1st'.
The sitter was the only daughter of Sir Alexander Temple of Etchingham, Sussex. Susanna's first husband, Sir Gifford Thornhurst, died in 1627 and in 1636 she married Sir Martin Lister of Thorpe Arnold, Leicestershire.

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