Follower of Jacopo Amigoni

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Follower of Jacopo Amigoni
A Noblewoman, believed to be Queen Caroline, half-length in lace-bordered blue dress, an ermine-bordered cloak over her shoulder, a pearl at her corsage, a jewel in her hair, a crown at her side
oil on copper
oval, 2 7/8in. (73mm.) high
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Wilhelmina Carolina of Ansbach (1683-1737) was Queen of Great Britain and Ireland. She married George II in 1705. Queen Caroline possessed a deep sympathy for science, literature and the arts. She busied herself with the gardens at Kensington Palace and it was she who discovered the Holbein drawings now at Windsor.

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