Note 395 — Chapter XXIII · ANNE OF CLEVES: 1539

Reproduced in the Oxford Catalogue, p. 24; Burlington Magazine, vol. v., May 1904, p. 214. A very similar picture was lent by Dr. Wickham Flower to the New Gallery Winter Exhibition, 1899-1900, No. 44, as a work of the Early Flemish School. It was described in the catalogue as: “Half-length, turned towards left, habited in a rich Flemish costume of gold tissue covered with jewellery; head-dress ornamented with pearls, and inscribed with the motto ‘A bon fine’; in her right hand she holds a red carnation; flat green background. Painted on vellum and strained on fine canvas, 15 in. × 14 in. This portrait is supposed to have been executed by a Flemish painter a year or two previous to Anne’s marriage in 1540.”