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Description: | This portrait was formerly thought to represent Queen Henrietta Maria. The sitter was instead the Queen's lady-in-waiting, Olivia Boteler Porter (d. 1633), wife of Anthony Van Dyck's friend and patron Endymion Porter. While in England, Van Dyck painted a number of portraits of different members of the family. The white satin dress with long puffed sleeves was intended as a classicising note of timelessness. Olivia Porter was the daughter of Sir John Boteler and Elizabeth Villiers. The red carnation in her hair might be an heraldic motif, since it appears in other images of female members of the Villiers family. | Subjects: | Olivia) portrait (Boteler Porter | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Dyck, Anthony van (Flemish painter, 1599-1641, active in England) Æ Attributed to after | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8672... | Go to resource |
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