David des Granges (1611-75)
Margaret, Lady Tufton (1617-before 1657) 1638-50
Watercolour on vellum laid on card | 5.2 x 4.4 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 420066
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This miniature had been identified since the nineteenth-century as Katherine Howard, Lady d'Aubigny (d. 1650), daughter of Theophilus, 2nd Earl of Suffolk. However, the miniature is based on a portrait type by Van Dyck, known from a version at Blickling Hall which was identified as Lady Tufton in the eighteenth century and is inscribed as a portrait of her. It is characteristic of the copies in miniature which des Granges produced after large-scale oil prototypes throughout the 1630s. Margaret, third daughter and co-heir of Thomas, 2nd Lord Wotton, married, as his first wife, Sir John Tufton, Signed on the right in gold: 'D D.G:'
Provenance
First recorded in the Royal Collection during the reign of Queen Victoria
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Medium and techniques
Watercolour on vellum laid on card
Measurements
5.2 x 4.4 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
6.5 x 5.5 cm (frame, external)
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Katherine Howard, Lady D'Aubigny (d. 1650), later Countess of Newburgh, previously identified as
