Levina Teerlinc
Levina Teerlinc (1510s – 23 June 1576) was a
Biography
Teerlinc was born in
Queen Mary gave her a New Year's day gift of a gilt silver salt in 1556 and she gave the queen a small picture of the
Reputation
Art historian Louisa Woodville writes:[12]
Teerlinc’s contemporaries were impressed by her work. The sixteenth-century Florentine historian Lodovico Guicciardini heralds Teerlinc as the best of the women painters practicing at the time. Seventy-five years later, Flemish historian Antonius Sanderus assured his readers that she was “very capable in the two specialties of art.”
Works
No surviving works have been confirmed as Teerlinc's.
Attributing Teerlinc's works is challenging because she did not always sign them. However, there are a few existing paintings that are suspected to be Teerlinc's due to the fact she was the only active miniaturist of prominence in English court between Hans Holbein the Younger in 1543 and Nicholas Hilliard in the 1570s.[16] Some scholars also speculate that many of the miniatures were lost in the fire at Whitehall.[17]
A 1983 exhibition at the
Partial list of works
Victoria and Albert Museum
- Levina Teerlinc, Portrait of Lady Katherine Grey, About 1555–60, Museum no. P.10-1979[19]
- Levina Teerlinc, Portrait of a Young Woman, 1566, Museum no. P.21-1954[20]
- Levina Teerlinc, Portrait of Mary Dudley, Lady Sidney, ca.1575, Museum no. E.1170-1988[21]
Other
- Levina Teerlinc?, Portrait of Queen Mary I, Duke of Buccleuch's collection
- Levina Teerlinc?, Portrait of a Young Woman, Royal Collection, Windsor Castle
- Levina Teerlinc?, Portrait of Elizabeth I in State Robes, Welbeck Abbey collection
Gallery
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Katherine Grey, Countess of Hertford by Levina Teerlinc, c. 1555-1560.[19] The Victoria and Albert Museum, P.10&A-1979
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Portrait ofElizabeth Iattributed to Levina Teerlinc, c. 1565. The Royal Collection
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Mary Dudley, Lady Sidney by Levina Teerlinc, c. 1575.[21] The Victoria and Albert Museum, E.1170-1988
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Edward VI by Levina Teerlinc.[22] After William Scrots's portrait of the young King of c. 1550
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Amy Robsart – The Beaufort Miniature by Levina Teerlinc, c. 1559.[note 2] Private Collection
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Katherine Grey, Countess of Hertford by Levina Teerlinc. The Victoria and Albert Museum, P.21-1954. Heavily overpainted. The date of '1549' is a later addition and the costume is typical of Mary’s reign which would accord with the age of the sitter, about fifteen to twenty, circa 1555-60[18]
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Elizabeth I when a Princess by Levina Teerlinc, c. 1551. The Paine Miniature. In October 1551 Levina Teerlinc was sent with her husband to the Princess Elizabeth 'to drawe out her picture'
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Mary Neville, Lady Dacreby Levina Teerlinc
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Portrait of a man, possibly Sir George Carew. Bought in 1970 together with the Yale Miniature from the collection of Miss Dorothy Hutton. At the time it was thought to have been painted by the same hand as the Yale Miniature
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The Coronation Miniature – Portrait of Elizabeth I in State Robes. Welbeck Abbey Collection, formerly in the collection of the Duke of Portland.
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Portrait of Elizabeth I of England in her coronation robes. Copy c. 1600–1610 of a lost original of c. 1559[24]
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Levina Teerlinc, Mary I with Figures in Landscape, Court of King's Bench, Coram Rege Rolls. Michaelmas, 1553[25]
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Levina Teerlinc, Indenture between the Queen, Elizabeth I, and the Dean and Canons of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, 30 August 1559[26]
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Elizabeth I, Court of King's Bench, Coram Rege Roll. Easter Term, 1572
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Illuminated Royal Letters Patent, 1571. Elizabeth I by Levina Teerlinc on this document, on vellum, recording the elevation of William Cecil to the peerage as Lord Burghley[27]
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Henry VIII. A recent technical analysis has shown that this miniature was painted by the same hand as the Yale Miniature[30]
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Katherine Parrby Levina Teerlinc. The Sudeley Miniature
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Katherine Brydges, Lady Dudley by Levina Teerlinc, c. 1560. A courtier to both Mary I and Elizabeth I. The daughter of John Brydges, 1st Baron Chandos and the wife of Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley[31]
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Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, c. 1545–1547
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Elizabeth I, c. 1559. Has the spindly arms identified by Strong[28]
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Queen Elizabeth I of England receives Dutch ambassadors, attributed to Levina Teerlinc, c. 1560
Footnotes
- ^ There have been several tentative identifications of this miniature. One theory is that it is a wedding picture of Lady Jane Grey, Amy Robsart's sister-in-law. Eric Ives argues that it cannot be Jane Grey because (among other considerations) she was too young, and says: "If the sitter was a Dudley wife and the miniature is a wedding memento, the acorns suggest Amy Robsart, who married ... at the precise age of 18 (Robert, robur, Latin for oak)." (Ives 2009 pp. 295, 15–16). Chris Skidmore concurs with this, adding that Robert Dudley used the oak as a personal symbol in his youth (Skidmore 2010 p. 21).
- ^ "Second half of the second half of the 1550's"[5][23]
Notes
- ^ Taylor, Melanie V. (4 March 2023). "Levina Teerlinc (?) Henry VIII's court artist from 1546 – 1576". Melanie V Taylor. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
- ^ "Levina Teerlinc: Biography & Works". Study.com. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ "Teerlinc, Levina (c. 1520–1576) | Encyclopedia.com".
- ^ )
- ^ )
- ^ a b c Strong 1983:52
- ^ OCLC 37693713.
- ISSN 2331-1983.
- ^ John Nichols, llustrations of the manners and expences of antient times in England (London, 1797), pp. 9, 22
- ^ a b King, Catherine (1999). What Women Can Make. pp. 61–62.
- ^ RKD data
- ^ Woodville, Louisa (12 May 2020). "Levina Teerlinc, Artist and Gentlewoman of the Tudor Court". Art Herstory. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
- ^ "British School, 16th century - Elizabeth I (1533-1603)". www.rct.uk. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
- JSTOR 865738.
- JSTOR 40382082.
- ^ Sutherland-Harris, Ann, and Linda Nochlin. Women Artists: 1550–1950. Los Angeles: Museum Associates of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976. Print.
- ^ Bergmans, Simone (1934). "The Miniatures of Levina Teerling". The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs: 232–236.
- ^ a b Strong 1983:53
- ^ a b "Portrait miniature of Katherine Grey, Countess of Herford; Katherine Grey, Countess of Hertford | Teerlinc | V&A Search the Collections". Collections.vam.ac.uk. 9 January 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
- ^ "Portrait of an unknown woman | Teerlinc, Levina (Mrs) | V&A Search the Collections". Collections.vam.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
- ^ a b "Portrait of Mary Dudley, Lady Sidney (d.1586) | Levina Teerlinc | V&A Search the Collections". Collections.vam.ac.uk. 9 January 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
- ^ Auction House, Sotheby's. "ATTRIBUTED TO LEVINA TEERLINC | Portrait of Edward VI, King of England (1537-1553), circa 1550".
- ^ "The Beaufort Miniature Portrait". Lady Jane Grey Revisited. July 2019. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
- ^ Arnold 1978
- ^ Woodville, Louisa (12 May 2020). "Levina Teerlinc, Artist and Gentlewoman of the Tudor Court". Art Herstory. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
- ^ Woodville, Louisa (12 May 2020). "Levina Teerlinc, Artist and Gentlewoman of the Tudor Court". Art Herstory. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
- ^ "Illuminated Royal Letters Patent, 1571. | Burghley Collections". Retrieved 21 November 2023.
- ^ a b c Strong 1981:45; Quote: "all the characteristics of Teerlinc's spidery style"
- ^ Taylor, Melanie V. (9 April 2020). "The Good Friday Ceremony of the blessing of cramp rings and the curing of the King's Evil". Melanie V Taylor. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
- ISSN 2058-5462.
- ^ Emerson, Kathy Lynn (11 October 2020). A Who's Who of Tudor Women. Kathy Lynn Emerson.
- ^ Museum, The Victoria and Albert (1550s), Portrait Miniature of an Unknown Man, retrieved 30 August 2023,
In Roy Strong's exhibition catalogue Artists of the Tudor Court: the Portrait Miniature Rediscovered 1520-1620, London, V&A, 1983, this miniature was cat.no. 110. Strong attributed it to Nicholas Hilliard, suggesting it was probably copied after a portrait by Levina Teerlinc from 1550, and was possibly of "Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford and 1st Duke of Somerset", and dated it to c. 1600. In a recent reassessment of the workshop practice of Nicholas Hilliard Katherine Coombs and Alan Derbyshire of the V&A re-examined this miniature. Their conclusion was that "the miniature clearly dates from the 1550s". They further noted that the gold inscription, though 'not of a high quality, is in Hilliard's manner.' (See Katherine Coombs and Alan Derbyshire, 'Nicholas Hilliard's Workshop Practice reconsidered', in 'Painting in Britain 1500-1630: Production, Influences and Patronage', ed. T.Cooper et al, Oxford, 2015, pp.241-251.). The inscription in the manner of Hilliard is discussed in the light of other works pre-dating Hilliard which are inscribed in Hilliard's characteristic curling gold calligraphy: such as Hans Holbein's 'Lord Abergavenny' in the collection of the Duke of Buccleuch. This suggests that it is plausible for this miniature of an unknown man to date from the 1550s but have an inscription added by Hilliard in the late 16th century. It is worth noting that the inscription on this miniature - 'Aetatis suae' - is unfinished, as the age of the sitter has not been added, and was perhaps unknown to the person adding the inscription.
- ^ Strong 1983:55
References
- Arnold, Janet: "The 'Coronation' Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I", The Burlington Magazine, CXX, 1978, pp. 727–41.
- ISBN 9780500202418.
- Harris, Anne Sutherland and Linda Nochlin, Women Artists: 1550-1950, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Knopf, New York, 1976.
- Strong, Roy: "From Manuscript to Miniature" in John Murdoch, Jim Murrell, Patrick J. Noon & Roy Strong, The English Miniature, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1981 (Strong 1981)
- Strong, Roy: Artists of the Tudor Court: The Portrait Miniature Rediscovered, 1520-1620, Victoria & Albert Museum exhibition catalogue, 1983, ISBN 0-905209-34-6(Strong 1983)