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In Fine Style: The Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion : The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse
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NICHOLAS HILLIARD (1547-1619)

Portrait of a Lady, perhaps Penelope, Lady Rich (1563-1607)

c.1589

RCIN 420020

The inclusion of a tiny five-pointed star (stella) in this woman’s hair suggests that this may be a portrait of Penelope, Lady Rich, thought to have been the inspiration for Stella in Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella.
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