The 1520’s
Portrait of Mary Wotton, Lady Guildenford
1527
Hans Holbein the Younger
Two versions are known today
The (assumed) original at the Saint Louis Art Museum | 1:1943
And the well-known copy (for a long time assumed to be the original) now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art | 20.155.4
Portrait of an Unknown English Noblewoman
c. 1527
Hans Holbein the Younger
More Family Portrait (detail)
More Family Portrait (detail)
Lady Alice More, née Middleton
Lady Elizabeth Peche
c. 1527
Follower of Hans Holbein the Younger
Latest comments
07.12 | 21:47
It looks like The Tau cross derives from the Egyptian Ankh and basically they are wearing it around their necks, life rebirth, salvation mirror. sun.Stonehenge looks like it is made up of Ts to form c
07.12 | 21:30
are wearing the symbol on effigies at Ingham church Norfolk and Henry StanleyD1528 at Hillingdon Middlesex.Countess Jacquline of Hainaut and husband Frank Borsele are also wearing the insignia others
07.12 | 21:23
These Queens could of been members of the order and i think the Tau cross is a symbol of the Holy Trinity also.These pendants could of been reliquaries.Lady margaret de Bois and Roger de bois
07.12 | 21:17
I think the Tau cross that they are wearing could be linked to the(knights) order of St Anthony, Mary 1st collar looks like it may represent the knotted girdle/waist cord of st Anthony .