Katherine Howard, Lady D'Aubigny (d.1650) Mid-17th century?
Oil on canvas | 106.4 x 86.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 401360
-
An early copy based on Van Dyck's double portrait in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, in which Lady d'Aubigny is depicted with Frances Stuart, Countess of Portland. This portrait was possibly cut from a copy of that double portrait and the eyes repainted to face the spectator instead of towards the second sitter.
Lady D'Aubigny was the daughter of Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk. In 1638 she secretly married George Stuart, Seigneur d'Aubigny, a Royalist commander who was killed at Edgehill in 1642. The couple had two children. She subsequently married Sir James Levingston, later Earl of Newburgh.Provenance
Purchased by George III with the collection of Consul Smith in 1762 (Flemish and Dutch list no 18); recorded in the Second Drawing Room or 'Warm Room' at Buckingham Palace in 1790, where it appears as an overdoor in Pyne's illustrated Royal Residences of 1819 (RCIN 922143).
-
Creator(s)
-
Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
106.4 x 86.0 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
Category
Object type(s)
Other number(s)
Alternative title(s)
Katharine Howard, Lady D'Aubigny (d.1650)