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Description: | In this portrait of an Elizabethan lady, the sitter is presented in an oval format against a plain background. The composition ensures that the sitter occupies most of the space, effectively focusing the viewer's attention on her. The lady is presented in a typically stiff posture; while this could reflect sixteenth-century attitudes to women and their modesty and elegance, it also allowed the artist to focus on the sitter's elaborate dress. Elizabethan portraits generally demonstrated the sitter's wealth through their presentation in expensive attire. | Subjects: | portrait | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Geeraerts, Marcus, the younger (Flemish painter, 1561-1635, active in England) Æ Attributed to school of Previously attributed to Geeraerts, Marcus, the elder (early Netherlandish painter, printmaker, ca.1520 - before 1604) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8366... | Go to resource |
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