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Description: | Three-quarter length portrait thought to depict Joyce Clopton (identification of subject now questioned). She wears a low-cut green dress with a high ruff and has fashionably frizzed hair. The dress has a wheel farthingale and is embroidered with silver thread with lace at the neck and sleeves. A long silver and enamel necklace hangs from her shoulders and she wears a diamond brooch at her neckline. She wears fashionable decorative black threads around her neck and in her right ear together with a large single pearl earring. The thread that disappears into her bodice would possibly have been attached to some sort of private keepsake. The background is a deep red oval set in a brown rectangle. Joyce Clopton was the daughter of William Clopton who inherited New Place which became Shakespeare's home. She was Lady-in-Waiting to Queens Elizabeth and Anne (of Denmark?). She married George Carew, Baron of Clopton, Earl of Totnes in 1580. | Subjects: | Joyce) portrait (Clopton | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Geeraerts, Marcus, the younger (Flemish painter, 1561-1635, active in England) Æ Attributed to school of | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8455... | Go to resource |
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