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SUBALBUM: Isabella of Austria
Today, you can get in a car and drive from Sweden to Denmark as parts of the EU. Back then, the nations were often at war. Isabella (Elisabeth) was caught in a politically unsuccessful marriage to the...
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1500-1510 Anne d'Alencon Marquise de Montferrat (1492-1562) daughter of Rene...
Anne's hair net, worn over a ferroniere, and cap are noteworthy. Her ferroniere appears to be woven through her hair net at her temple and the pearl may vome through an opening in the net. The...
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ca. 1481-1483 Caterina Sforza by Lorenzo de Credi (Pinacoteca Civica di...
The upper part of Caterina Sforza's left sleeve is lost in the shadow. Her plain black dress relies on her camica and puffed cloth ornaments for decoration. Even the lacing of her bodice is...
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SUBALBUM: Beatrix Pacheco
I can find nothing about her besides portraits. According to the Google translation of her daughter Jacqueline's French Wikipedia article; she was the mother of Jacqueline de Montbel d'Entremont. She...
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1547 Isabella Guerrieri Gonzaga Canossa by Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari)...
Isabella's dress has a deep vee neckline framed by lapels that would be very revealing were it not for her camica and partlet.Keywords: 1547, Veronese, Isabella Guerrieri Gonzaga Canossa, straight...
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ca. 1612 Lady Elizabeth Pope, née Blount (c.1515–1593) by ? (Trinity...
Lady Elizabeth wears a severe black dress made brilliantly alive by red under-sleeves and numerous pearls. How much artistic license the 1612 portraitist took is unknown.Keywords: Elizabeth Blount,...
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SUBALBUM: Mary Neville, Lady Dacre
Young Mary Neville's maroon and black two-tone dress has blackwork trim and sleeves puffed at their bottoms where puffed cloth shows through.Keywords: Mary Neville, Mary Fiennes, Lady Dacre, Neville...
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Probably Elizabeth Howard, Lady Ratclif, maternal aunt of Anne Boleyn and...
The flap behind Lady Elizabeth's English hood is folded and bent in this Holbein portrait.Keywords: Holbein, Elizabeth Howard, Lady Ratclif, Lady Ratcliff, Lady Radcliffe, Howard family, Radcliffe...
View ArticleSUBALBUM: Isabella d'Este
Isabella d'Este's Wikipedia article begins: "Isabella d'Este (18 May 1474 – 13 February 1539) was Marchesa of Mantua and one of the leading women of the Italian Renaissance as a major cultural and...
View ArticlePolish Princess by Pauquet freres
From griffons.com/Paquet-Brothers-1875-Polish-Princess-XV-and-XVI-Centuries.html.
View Article1545-1547 Giulia Varano Duchess of Urbino by Tiziano Vecellio (Palazzo Pitti...
From backtoclassics.com/gallery/vecelliotiziano/giuliavaranoduchessofurbino/ via pinterest.com/lizluther/italian-partlet-project/.
View ArticleElizabeth, Lady Vaux, after Hans Holbein the Younger (Royal Collection)
From pinterest.com/johnbabich/portraits-female-historic-ii/; filled in shadows and increased exposure.
View Articleca. 1536 Elizabeth, Lady Vaux, by Hans Holbein the Younger (Royal Collection)
Her genealogical sketch is here.From Wikimedia.
View Article1526-1527 (some time) Anne Cresacre by Hans Holbein the Younger (Royal...
According to her article in thepeerage, she married John More, son of Sir Thomas More who was beheaded by King Henry VIII in 1535.From the Google Art Project via Wikimedia. This image was originally...
View Article1532-1543 (some time) Mary, Lady Heveningham by Hans Holbein the Younger...
The Wikipedia article for “Margaret and mary Shelton” has this portrait and suggests they may be the same person (without benefit of quantum physics). She may have been six-months lover to Henry VIII...
View Article1532-1543 (some time) Jane, Lady Lister by Hans Holbein the Younger (Royal...
From Wikimedia. Originally found on pinterest.com/crownedheads/1500-gabled-head-dress/.
View ArticleLate 15th-early 16th century wire headdress frame (Museum of London - London,...
From museumoflondonprints.com/image.php?id=59551&idx=10&fromsearch=true; originally found on pinterest.com/crownedheads/1500-gabled-head-dress/.
View ArticleMarchioness of Dorset (1487–1541) after Hans Holbein the Younger (Anglesey...
From Wikimedia; removed probable reflection artifact from left side of the under-bodice with Photoshop.
View Articleca. 1533-1536 Lady, said to be Anne Stuart, Maréchale d’Aubigny by Claude...
I cannot get definitive information, but I believe this is Anne de la Queuille who lived between around 1520 to 1579 and who married John Stuart, 6th seigneur d’Aubigny.From...
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SUBALBUM: Anne of Bohemia and Hungary
Her Wikipedia article is here. She was "Queen Consort of the Romans" or Holy Roman Empress.1520 Queen Anne of Bohemia and of Hungary by Hans Maler zu Schwaz (private collection)ca. 1520 Anne of Bohemia...
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SUBALBUM: Mary of Habsburg, Queen of Hungary
Her Wikipedia article is here.1519 Mary of Hungary by Hans Maler zu Schwaz (Sammlung der Veste - Coburg, Bayern Germany)1520 Mary of Habsburg, Queen of Hungary wedding dress (Hungarian National...
View ArticleElisabeth of Austria (1526 – 1545), Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of...
From pinterest.com/dianariveraguil/royals/.
View Articleca. 1535 Unknown woman, known as Margaret Pole by ? retouched (National...
HerWikipedia articleincludes this, "One of the few surviving members of the Plantagenet dynasty after the Wars of the Roses, she was executed in 1541 at the command of Henry VIII, who was the son of...
View Articleca. 1540-1543 Grace, Lady Parker by Hans Holbein the Younger (Royal Collection)
An article in The Anne Boleyn Files asserts, "'The Lady Parker' a portrait once thought to be Jane Parker but which is probably Grace Newport, Jane's sister-in-law.” The Royal Collection identifies...
View Article1540 (after) Elizabeth, Lady Hoby, close friend of Queen Katherine Parr by...
This is very unusual, the portrait of a daughter appearing decades before the portrait of her (step)mother, Lady Elizabeth Walshe. According to this genealogical sketch, she married Sir William...
View Articleca. 1537 Princess Jadwiga Jagiellonka of Poland, Margravine of Brandenburg...
Her Wikipedia article is here.From pinterest.com/davidlovett7727/16th-c-europa/portraits-early-1533/.
View Articleca. 1529 Magdalene von Sachsen, Princess-Electress of Brandenburg by Lucas...
According to her Wikipedia article, she was the first wife of the Prince-Elector of Brandenburg, Joachim II Hector. He later married Jadwiga Jagiellonka of Poland.From Wikimedia; spots and cracked...
View Article1528 Margareta Eriksdotter Vasa, 1497-1537. Sister of Gustav (Vasa) I...
Her Wikipedia article is here. She married twice, had two children from each marriage that survived to adulthood, was imprisoned several times, and died in exile.The Swedish Wikimedia notes for this...
View Articleca. 1525 Woman, also called Magdalena von Sachsen by Lucas Cranach the Elder...
From Google Art Project via Wikimedia; fixed spots and cracks with Photoshop.
View Articleca. 1506 Anne de Bretagne by ? (location ?)
She married twice due to the political turbulence of the era according to her Wikipedia article. France and indepedant Burgundy were united as a result. Two of the children by her second marriage...
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SUBALBUM: Renée de France
Renée was the daughter of Anne de Bretagne. She was Claude de France’s sister. According to her Wikipedia article, Renée became a protestant. Her husband, Ercole II d’Este, turned her in to the...
View Articleca. 1530 Lady Alice More by follower of Hans Holbein (private collection)
According to her article in thepeerage, Alice More was born Alice Harpur, married John Middleton and bore him a daughter, and then married Sir Thomas More who, according to Wikipedia, was beheaded in...
View Articleca. 1527 Cecily Heron, daughter of Sir Thomas Moore, by Hans Holbein the...
Page 167 of this reference (Hayward, Maria, Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York. 2007) advises that this is an early portrayal of maternity...
View ArticleMargaret Giggs, adopted daughter of Sir Thomas Moore, by Hans Holbein the...
Sir Thomas Moore’s article in thepeerage does not mention her, but her Wikipedia article is here. According to the Wikipedia article, she was a foster, not adopted, child. She is at the far left in the...
View ArticleElizabeth Dauncey by Hans Holbein the Younger (Royal Collection, Windsor...
This is another of Sir Thomas More and Joan Colt’s daughters. She is second from the left in the More family portrait.Her article in thepeerage is here.From Peter's photostream on flickr.
View Articleca. 1535 Frances, Countess of Surrey by Hans Holbein the Younger (Royal...
Her article in thepeerage is here. Her Wikipedia article is here. She married Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (executed for treason in 1547), and had five children who survived to adulthood. She later...
View Articleca. 1536 Lady Meutas, née Astley by Hans Holbein the Younger (location ?)
According to her Wikipedia article, Jane Astley was a Lady of the Privy Chamber to Queen Jane Seymour and met the dashing Peter Meutas there. They had at least three children.From Wikimedia.
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SUBALBUM: Holy Roman Empress Bianca Maria Sforza
According to her Wikipedia article, she was wife number two for Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I whom she married in 1494. He was also husband number two for her. Her first marriage was childless when...
View Article1515 (on or before) Sibylla von Freyberg, née Gossenbrot wearing Order of the...
Religion dominated life in the late Medieval period, but the Great Plague reduced the grip of religion. Early 1500s portraits often show people in prayer - the subject of this portrait holds a rosary....
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SUBALBUM: Sibylle of Cleves
According to her Wikipedia article, Sybille was the oldest daughter of Johann III der Friedfertige, Herzog von Jülich-Kleve-Berg and Maria of Jülich-Berg. She had two sisters, Anne and Amalia. Anne was...
View Article1538 Susana Prand von Aibling by Hans Schöpfer the Elder (location ?)
I can find nothing about her other than this portrait.From pinterest.com/pawerychlik/renaissance-clothing/.
View Article1502 Jadwiga Jagiellonka, Duchess of Bavaria by Mair von Landshut (location ?)
The vivid colors prompted me to look up Mair von Landshut to verify he was active at the time rather than being active in the 20th or 21st centuries.From...
View Article1529-1530 Susanna of Bavaria, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth by Peter...
Her Wikipedia article is here.From jeannedepompadour.blogspot.com/2013/04/german-style-from-1468-1588.
View Article1533 Susanna of Bavaria by Barthel Beham (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen...
The Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen displays works in their collection at a several locations.From Wikimedia.
View Article1540's Catherine of Austria (1533-1572) by Titian (location ?)
Her Wikipedia article is here. An image of her sister Elisabeth is here.From pinterest.com/chubbard7946/old-fashion/.
View ArticleDorothea of Denmark, Electress Palatine of the Rhine by ? (location ?)
Her Wikipedia article is here. She became deeply entangled in the religious strife rampant in the 1500s.From pinterest.com/sarahputt/sca-outerwear/; print in lower center of floor removed with Photoshop.
View Article1534 Christiana Eulenau by Lucas Cranach the Elder (Staatsgalerie in der...
I cannot find anything out about Christiana Eulenau besides this portrait. More information about it can be found here.From oldrags.tumblr.com/tagged/16th+century/page/2.
View Article1537 (after) Barbara Jagiellon by workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder...
According to her Wikipedia article, she lived between 1478 and 1534 so this is a posthumous portrait.From Wikimedia.
View Article1530 Young woman, possibly Countess Gozzadini by Girolamo Parmigianino...
I cannot find anything out about her.From Wikimedia.
View Article1525 Markgräfin Elisabeth von Baden by Hans Wertinger (Museum Veste Coburg -...
This may be a genealogical sketch for her. If so, this is a posthumous portrait. The portrait in the genealogical sketch is over 100 years out of date.From Lady Petronilla's photostram on flickr.
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