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Putting a name to a face: ‘Portrait of a lady’ at Parham House
07/2025 | 1468 | 167
Pages: 670–79
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Arthur-Hull, Bianca (Arthur-Hull, Bianca)
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Clifford, Elise Effmann (Clifford, Elise Effmann)
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Goldring, Elizabeth (Goldring, Elizabeth)
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Montanaro, Sakeenah Teal (Montanaro, Sakeenah Teal)
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Illustrations
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1. Portrait of a lady, here identified as Frances Walsingham, Lady Sidney, and here attributed to Robert Peake the Elder, with a slightly later campaign by another artist (William Segar?). c.1584–85?. Oil on panel, 92.5 by 75.6 cm. (Parham House, West Sussex; photograph Courtauld Institute of Art, London).
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10a. MA-XRF elemental map of mercury in red overlaid on a detail of Fig.1, showing the distribution of presumably vermilion pigment in the outlining design underlying the column motif and the fasteners on bodice. (Courtauld Institute of Art, London).
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10b. MA-XRF elemental map of copper in blue overlaid on a detail of Fig.1, showing the distribution of presumably azurite pigment in the pearls. Due to the painting’s condition, the source of copper-containing areas underlying the single pearls atop the columns remains unclear. (Courtauld Institute of Art, London).
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11. Lord Robert Dudley, later Earl of Leicester, attributed to Steven van der Meulen. c.1563, with later additions by another artist to reflect Dudley’s elevation to the peerage (1564) and his induction into the Ordre de St-Michel (1566). Oil on panel, 107 by 80 cm. (Rothschild Family Trust, on loan to Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire).
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12. Portrait of a woman, traditionally identified as Mary Clopton (born Waldegrave), of Kentwell Hall, Suffolk, by Robert Peake the Elder. c.1600. Oil on panel, 113.7 by 88.3 cm. (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).
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13. Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, with the Lord Steward’s staff, by William Segar. 1587–88. Oil on panel. (Private collection).
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14. Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, by William Segar. 1590. Oil on panel, 112 by 86 cm. (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin).
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2. Frances Walsingham, Lady Sidney, attributed to Robert Peake the Elder. c.1586–90. Oil on panel, 85 by 73.9 cm. (Fine Arts Museum San Francisco).
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3. Portrait of an unknown lady, by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1595. Watercolour on vellum, 18.2 by 12.2 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Bridgeman Images).
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4. Detail of Fig.1, showing the ruff with the ragged staves and snakes. (Courtauld Institute of Art, London).
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5. Detail of Fig.1, showing the muff with column and arrows. (Courtauld Institute of Art, London).
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6. Emblematic device with inscribed ‘si Deus nobifcum, quis contra nos’ (‘if God is with us, who can be against us?’). (From Geoffrey Wittney, A Choice of Emblemes, and Other Devises, Leiden 1586).
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7. The bear and ragged staff emblem of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, with the motto ‘droit et loyal’, armorial bookbinding stamp, 5.3 by 4.3 cm. (British Museum, London).
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8. Double Leicester rijksdaalder. Minted in Utrecht. 1587. Silver, 58.44 grams. (British Museum, London).
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9a. X-radiograph detail of the portrait in Fig.1 (Courtauld Institute of Art, London).
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9b. X-radiograph detail of the portrait in Fig.2, with cradle interference suppressed with Elvacite 2046. (Paintings Conservation Department, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco).