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Creator:
Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, 1561–1635
Title:

Elizabeth Knightley (née Seymour), Lady Knightley

Date:
1591
Medium:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
36 3/4 x 28 1/4 inches (93.3 x 71.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Dated in yellow paint, upper right: "AE 46"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.1.10
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
carnations | chain | costume | crest | flower (plant) | flowers (plants) | lace | phoenix | portrait | ring | ruff | snake | Tudor | watch | wealth | woman
Associated People:
Knightley, Elizabeth (née Seymour), Lady Knightley (1550?-1603)
Access:
Not on view
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:201
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Lady Elizabeth (1550?-1602) was the daughter of Edward Seymour, first Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector of King Edward VI. She married the wealthy Puritan Sir Richard Knightley of Fawsley. The Latin inscription on her bracelets is a contraction of a verse in the Vulgate Latin text of St. Paul's Letter to the Philippians (1:21):
mihi enim vivere Christus est et mori lucrus (For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain).

Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2005

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 102-103, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Matthew Hargraves, "Yale Center for British Art joins Art UK", ArtUK, 24 June 2019, Available online https://artuk.org/discover/stories/yale-center-for-british-art-joins-art-uk [Website]

Ian Tyers, The tree-ring analysis of 23 panel paintings from the Yale Center for British Art , New Haven : dendrochronological consultancy report 470, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2011, pp. 14, 15, 16, 55-59, fig. 32, CC78.3 .T94 2011 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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