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Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
Mary, Lady Heveningham (1510/15-1570/71) c.1532-43
Black and coloured chalks, white bodycolour, pen and ink, and brush and ink on pale pink prepared paper | 30.3 x 21.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 912227
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A portrait drawing of Mary, Lady Heveningham (1510/15-1570/71), wife of Sir Anthony Heveningham, daughter of Sir John Shelton, and cousin of Queen Anne Boleyn. A bust length portrait facing three-quarters to the right. She wears a necklace, pendant and medallion. Inscribed in an eighteenth-century hand at upper left: The Lady Henegham.
Mary Shelton, later Lady Heveningham, was a cousin of Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII. She attended the ill-fated Queen Anne at court and was a respected literary figure, being one of the contributors to the miscellany of verse known as the 'Devonshire Manuscript'. No corresponding painted portrait is known.
Text adapted from Charles II: Art & Power, London, 2017Provenance
Henry VIII; Edward VI, 1547; Henry FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel; by whom bequeathed to John, Lord Lumley, 1580; by whom probably bequeathed to Henry, Prince of Wales, 1609, and thus inherited by Prince Charles (later Charles I), 1612; by whom exchanged with Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, 1627/8; by whom given to Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel; acquired by Charles II by 1675
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Black and coloured chalks, white bodycolour, pen and ink, and brush and ink on pale pink prepared paper
black chalk, yellow chalk, brown chalk, white bodycolour, pen and ink, brush and ink, pale pink prepared paperMeasurements
30.3 x 21.1 cm (sheet of paper)
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RL 12227Featured in
ExhibitionCharles II: Art & Power: The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace
The art of the Restoration
