Van der Doort c.1639

made in her time

The 3rd, Henry VIII's first Queen Catherine, black dress and habit adorned with gold and pearl

Walpole Society reference (1960): 
WS 109, № 26
Measurements (Van der Doort): 
1½in x 0 (3.8 x 0cm)
Light: 
light from the left
Frame: 
in the first and least square frame 8 x 9 in [20.3 x 22.9], framing 8 pictures of your majesty's antecedents all as yet without crystals
Provenance: 
Lord Suffolk, Theophilus Howard
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited: 
gift
Location: 
Room description extended: 
4th Book containing all your Majesty's well limned pieces, kept at the moment in cupboards in the newly erected Cabinet Room, Whitehall
Original Manuscript page number: 
Windsor MS., f. 54 & MS Ash 1514, f. 123
Charles II inventory c1666: 
Whitehall, no 394, 23 x 23, frame for 8 miniatures
Identification certainty: 
Identified
Sale Inventory c.1649-51