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FLEMISH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1540
Lot 3PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (LOTS 1-13)

FLEMISH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1540

Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as Katherine of Aragon (1485-1536), first wife of King Henry VIII, half-length in a brown corset and black gown

Closed30 July 2020

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FLEMISH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1540
Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as Katherine of Aragon (1485-1536), first wife of King Henry VIII, half-length in a brown corset and black gown
oil on panel
13 ½ x 10 1/8 in. (34.3 x 25.8 cm.)

(Traditionally) Katherine of Aragon (1485-1536), Buckden Palace, Cambridgeshire, and later Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire.
The Dukes of Manchester, Kimbolton Castle, and by descent to,
Alexander Drogo Montagu, 10th Duke of Manchester (1902-1977), and by inheritance to the present owner.

Specialist note

This picture is thought to have been in the sitter's collection and brought in May 1534 to Kimbolton Castle, where Katherine remained until her death in January 1536 (see W. Montagu, op. cit., 1864).

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