Painted by the Flemish artist Emmanuel de Critz. You could probably write a book about the costume details here, but I’d like to point out particularly the lovely embroidery on her under petticote and the matching lace edged coif and kerchief. © 2011 University of Oxford – Ashmolean Museum
Portrait of Hester Tradescant and her stepson 1645
2 Comments to “Portrait of Hester Tradescant and her stepson 1645”
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This portrait does in fact appear in a book– Leora Auslander’s _Cultural Revolutions_; Auslander cites it as an example of an unfinished Puritan sartorial revolution (2009, 60-63)
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Interesting coat on the boy, with no signs of a doublet underneath it
