English: Katherine, Duchess of Suffolk, Baroness Willoughby de Eresby (1520-1580), wearing a black headdress edged with gold and a black velvet dress trimmed with white fur.
English: The clothing worn by the sitter suggests the miniature was probably painted between 1550 and 1553, although it may have been commissioned while she was in exile during the reign of Mary I.
References
James, Susan E. (2016). The Feminine Dynamic in English Art, 1485-1603. London: Routledge. ISBN9781138253018, p. 40.
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Katherine, Duchess of Suffolk, Baroness Willoughby de Eresby (1520-1580)