Portrait of lady ratcliffe, inscribed "the lady ratclif". Black and coloured chalks, pen and brush and indian ink, metalpoint, on pink-primed paper, 30. 1 × 20. 3 cm, royal collection, windsor castle. Water stain on right. Rubbed and partly reinforced later. The sitter could have been a number of lady ratcliffes. Sir robert ratcliffe, ist earl of sussex (1483–1542), had three wives, of which the third, mary, is most possible. Art historian k. T. Parker tentatively favoured his son henry's wife lady elizabeth howard (d. C. 1536), daughter of thomas howard, 2nd duke of norfolk, and his second wife, agnes tilney, as the most plausible sitter, since holbein drew other members of the howard family. Reference
k. T. Parker, the drawings of hans holbein at windsor castle, oxford: phaidon, 1945, oclc 822974, p. 41. Date: 1532–43.
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