Mary, queen of scots in “white mourning”. Object Type: painting. Genre: portrait. Date: between circa 1559 and circa 1560; the picture was painted before August 1560 (so before the death of her husband but after the deaths of her father-in-law and mother) as it is mentioned in a letter of that date from the English ambassador Nicholas Throckmorton to Elizabeth I of England (Antonia Fraser, Mary Queen of Scots, 1994 new edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN 0-297-17773-7, p. 77; Roy Strong, Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, 1969, National Portrait Gallery, p. 219). Dimensions: height: 30.3 cm (11.9 in); width: 23.2 cm (9.1 in). Medium: oil on panel. Depicted People: Mary, Queen of Scots. Collection: Royal Collection. MaryQueenofScotsMourning
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