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Mary, Lady Vere
(c. 1612-1615)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 183.0 × 102.0 cm
- Accession Number
- 2014.553
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Leigh Clifford AO and Sue Clifford, Alan and Mavourneen Cowen, the Fox Family Foundation, donors to the Larkin Appeal and the proceeds of the National Gallery of Victoria Annual Dinner, 2014
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- 17th Century & Flemish Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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Despite her Puritan sympathies, Lady Mary Vere is depicted in William Larkin’s painting surrounded by lavish textiles; she stands on an exotic oriental carpet before lustrous red drapes, and her hand rests on a table cover embellished with fine gilt embroidery. Lady Vere’s low-cut dress of black velvet, ornamented with expensive needlepoint accessories, and red underskirt decorated with metal thread embroidery work in sympathy to create a dramatic effect.
- Subjects (general)
- Portraits Textile
- Subjects (specific)
- cuffs (costume components) drapery (representations) full-length figures lace (needlework) nobles (aristocrats) ruffs social status women (female humans)
- Movements
- Jacobean (culture or period)