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Unknown Artist, Unknown Woman
Photo courtesy of Dave Penman (All rights reserved)
Details
- Country House
- Doddington Hall
- Title(s)
- Unknown Woman
- Date
- 1617
- Location
- Brown Parlour
- Medium and support
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- Overall height: 55 cm, Overall width: 45 cm
- Artist
- Unknown Artist
- Catalogue Number
- DN6
- Inscription
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- Inscribed ‘AETATIS SVAE 19 / ANNO 1617’
Bibliography
R.E.G. Cole, History of Doddington, otherwise Doddington-Pigot, in the County of Lincoln, and its successive owners, with pedigrees, Lincoln : James Williamson, 1897, p. 219
Description
Maria Anna, Infanta of Spain (1606–1646), who is identified by tradition as the sitter in the present portrait, was the youngest daughter of Philip III and Margaret of Austria. However, the portrait does not bear a likeness to other images of Anna Maria (for example by Velasquez, 1630, Prado), and the sitter’s dates do not match. The inscription on the panel indicates that the sitter was aged nineteen in 1617, suggesting that she was born c.1598.