Current knowledge
Royal Collection 403429
François Clouet
Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587)
Current measurements:
30.3cm x 23.2cm
This painting is duplicated in van der Doort's list of items in store (WS 158, no. 7). Due to the instance of two identical works of identical size listed in the Charles II c.1666 inventory, the work cited here forms only a possible match with the seventeenth-century records
Van der Doort 1639
Said to be (young) Jeannet [Clouet]
Mary Queen of Scots, in her white mourning habit (almost half-length), curiously done
Sale Inventory c.1649-51
Walpole Society reference (1972):