Details
Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619)
A Fine Portrait Miniature of a Lady, perhaps Elizabeth of Bohemia, facing left in black dress elaborately slashed in pink, three pink and black ribbon rosettes at the bodice, an orange ribbon behind the lace edge and single lace-edged ruff, six pink ribbon rosettes and jewels in her fair hair at the centre of which is a star-shaped jewel with drop pearl, with gold inscription Ano Dm. 1--0 on a blue ground within gold border
on vellum, circular turned ivory frame
oval, 2 1/8in. (53mm.) high
Provenance
The Dowager Duchess of Leeds (according to the Currie sale catalogue) Lady Currie; Christie's, 3 April 1906, lot 85, as Lady Arabella
Stuart (?) (340 gns. to Hodgkins)
J. Pierpont Morgan; Christie's, 25 June 1935, lot 235, as a lady called Arabella Stuart by Lavina Teerlinc (500 gns. to Dr. Beets)
Literature
G. C. Williamson, Catalogue of the Collection of Miniatures, the property of J. Pierpont Morgan, London, 1906-7, I, pl. X, no. 1 (no. 14)
G. C. Williamson, Mr J. Pierpont Morgan's Pictures, The Early Miniatures I, The Connoisseur, London, December 1906, p. 204, ill. no. VII (a lady by Lavina Teerlinc)
