Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby (1443-1509)
This composition occurs in many versions and we cannot be sure which one van der Doort refers to.
Van der Doort c.1639
WS 28, № 31
Henry VII's mother, in a white mourning dress habit, holding a black book
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Light:
light from the [blank]
Frame:
red painted and gilded frame
Provenance:
Whitehall piece
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
inherited
Hang notes:
eighth
Location:
Room description extended:
At the upper end of your majesty's Privy Gallery towards the Queen's Side nine old Heads, Whitehall Pieces
Original Manuscript page number:
MS. Ash. 1514, f. 38
Charles II inventory c1666:
Whitehall, no 132
Identification certainty:
Version of
Sale Inventory c.1649-51