Elizabeth Woodville (1437?-1492) 1513-1530
Oil on panel | 37.6 x 27.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 406785
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This panel was originally round-topped and would have been in a gilded, engaged frame, which normally indicates a date of the 1470s-1480s. However, recent dendrochronological (tree-ring) dating has indicated a creation date of c.1513-30. The round-top was later altered (between 1666-7 and 1818) and the painting was transformed into a rectangular format. This was possibly in order to make the painting fit in with a set of early King and Queen portraits. The wife of Edward IV is shown half-length, resting her folded hands on a ledge in front of her. The artist is unidentified but would probably have been either British or Flemish, working at Henry VIII's court.
Provenance
First recorded at Whitehall Palace in the 1542 (no 714); in the Privy Gallery at Whitehall in 1639 (no 48); sold to De la Mare on 28 June 1650 from St James's as part of a group of 31 'pictures of Kings and Princes' (no 218); recovered at the Restoration and listed in the King's Privy Gallery at Whitehall in 1666 (no 116)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on panel
Measurements
37.6 x 27.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
33.8 x 20.5 cm (support (etc), excluding additions)
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