Art historian Dr Emma Luisa Cahill Marrón has announced that she will be part of a team working on the miniatures owned by the Yale Center for British Art.
The project will include a portrait that has previously been suggested as Lady Jane Grey by David Starkey. In March 2007, it was on display as part of ‘Lost Faces’ exhibition at the Philip Mould Gallery.
In ‘Susanna Horenbout, Levina Teerlinc and the Mask of Royalty’ by Susan E James and James S Franco published in 2000, it is suggested that the miniature was painted by Susanna Horenbout and is of Queen Katherine Howard. Eric Ives in ‘Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery’ published in 2009, suggests that the sitter is Amy Robsart (wife of Robert Dudley), as does Chris Skidmore in ‘Death and the Virgin: Elizabeth, Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart’ in 2010.
In Portrait of an Unknown Lady: Technical Analysis of an Early Tudor Miniature published in 2020, Polly Saltmarsh put forward the argument that the sitter is a young Mary I.
(c) Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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