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Portrait of Mrs Jane Small (© V&A Picture Library)
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© V&A Picture Library

Portrait of Mrs Jane Small

Artist: Hans Holbein the Younger (circa 1497 - 1543)

Location: Victoria and Albert Museum

Date: circa 1536-1540

Materials: gouache

Dimensions: 5 cm

Grant:

Amount Paid: £2,597 (Total: £6,195)

Vendor: Lord Duveen (coll P Morgan)

Review number: 956 (1935)

Provenance:
Mr J Heywood Hawkins, 1865; Mr Pierpont Morgan, New York; Lord Duveen, 1935

Description:
A circular miniature of Jane Small that was originally catalogued as Mrs Robert Pemberton. She wears a black dress and a white chemisette, clasped with a golden collar. On her corsage is a red carnation, and she holds a leaf. The background is ultramarine blue. Mr Pemberton's coat of arms is on the back. Jane Small’s maiden name was Pemberton and she was the wife of Nicholas Small, a rich London merchant. The attribution is thought more likely than that of Mrs R Pemberton, the wife of an obscure Northamptonshire country gentleman.

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