Mary Cornwallis


The details of this three-quarter length portrait of Mary Cornwallis, wife of the Earl of Bath, is absolutely fantastic. She is wearing a sumptuous Elizabethan dress consisting of a pearl headdress, wide ruff, linen sleeves embroidered with blackwork and a plain black velvet gown hung with pearls and brooches. A pendant with a classical portrait of a bearded man hangs on a ribbon from her girdle. She stands, one hand playing with her pearls, the other resting by her side, carrying a gold fan inscribed with a coat of arms.
George Gower c.1580-1580.
Photo credit: Manchester Art Gallery.

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