Lady Guildford (Mary Wotton, 1499–1558)
Medium
Oil and gold on oak
Dimensions
32 1/8 x 26 1/8 in. (81.6 x 66.4 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of William K. Vanderbilt, 1920
Accession Number
20.155.4
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold the elegant portrait of *Lady Guildford (Mary Wotton, 1499–1558)* by Hans Holbein the Younger a masterpiece of Northern Renaissance portraiture now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's European Paintings collection. Painted in oil and gold on oak, this work captures the poised nobility of Mary Wotton, of Sir Henry Guildford a prominent figure at the court of King Henry VIII. Holbein a German-born artist who rose to fame in Tudor England as the king's principal portraitist, likely created this around the 1540s, though the exact date remains unknown. The lavish use of gold highlight...