A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling
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| Artist | Hans Holbein the Younger |
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| Year | 1526–28 |
| Type | Oil on oak |
| Dimensions | 56 cm × 38.8 cm (22 in × 15.3 in) |
| Location | National Gallery, London |
A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling is an oil on oak painting undertaken between 1526 and 1528 by the German artist Hans Holbein the Younger.[1] Although the sitter was unknown for some time, it is thought to be Anne Lovell, the wife of Francis, a squire to Henry VIII; according to Derek Wilson, Holbein's biographer, "the squirrel was Lovell's heraldic badge and the starling is a pun on 'East Harling'", which was Lovell's ancestral seat.[2] It is unlikely that the sitter posed with the animals, which were likely to have been separate sittings by Holbein.[3]
The painting was probably undertaken during Holbein's first visit to Britain in 1526–28,[3] and it contains azurite, copper resinate, lead white, lamp black, red earth, Cologne earth and vermilion pigments, held in a linseed oil binder.[4]
The painting was acquired in 1992 by the National Gallery in London,[1] which considers it to be "a wonderfully preserved example of Holbein's art at its most evocative".[5]
In 2014 King and McGaw partnered with Art Everywhere, a charitable project putting on the world's largest art exhibition displayed 25 artworks on 30,000 billboards across the UK including A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling. The profits of the campaign went to the Art Fund.[6]
References
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- ↑ Wilson 2006, p. 140.
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- ↑ Foister, Wyld & Roy 1994, p. 9.
- ↑ Langmuir 1997, p. 123.
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