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Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)
Elizabeth Dauncey (b. 1506) 1526-27
Black and coloured chalks | 36.7 x 26.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 912228
Chambers Gallery, The King's Gallery, Buckingham Palace
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A portrait drawing of Elizabeth Dauncey (b. 1506). She is shown bust-length in profile to the right wearing a gable hood. The drawing is in black and coloured chalks, which have been wetted to create the flesh tone of the face.
The drawing is inscribed rot (red) in Holbein's hand. An eighteenth-century inscription (a copy of a mid-sixteenth-century original) at top left identifies the sitter, erroneously, as 'The Lady Barkley.'
This is one of a group of studies made by Holbein shortly after his arrival in England for a large group portrait of Sir Thomas More and his family. The finished painting was destroyed by fire in 1752, but a sketch for the composition survives in Basel and individual studies for seven of the sitters are in the Royal Collection. An early copy of the finished work by Rowland Lockey at Nostell Priory in West Yorkshire may record the appearance of the final painting.
Elizabeth Dauncey was the daughter of Sir Thomas More. She married William Dauncey in 1525.Provenance
Henry VIII; Edward VI, 1547; Henry FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel; by whom bequeathed to John, Lord Lumley, 1580; by whom probably bequeathed to Henry, Prince of Wales, 1609, and thus inherited by Prince Charles (later Charles I), 1612; by whom exchanged with Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, 1627/8; by whom given to Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel; acquired by Charles II by 1675
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Medium and techniques
Black and coloured chalks
Measurements
36.7 x 26.0 cm (sheet of paper)
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RL 12228
