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Creator:
George Gower, ca. 1538–1596
formerly John Bettes the Younger, died 1616
Title:
Frances Brydges (née Clinton), Lady Chandos [2022, YCBA]
Former Title(s):
The Duchess of Chandos [1985, Cormack, YCBA Concise Catalogue]
Date:
1579
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
35 7/8 x 27 inches (91.1 x 68.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed in yellow paint, upper right: "AETATIS SU"

Dated in yellow paint, upper left: "ANO DNI 1579"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1973.1.3
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:
B1973.1.3FR
Subject Terms:
cameo | chain | coat of arms | costume | crest | dog (animal) | fabric | gold | lace | pearl | portrait | Tudor | woman
Associated People:
Brydges, Frances (1552–1623), daughter of Edward Fiennes de Clinton, first Earl of Lincoln (d. 1585) and wife of Giles Brydges, third Baron Chandos of Sudeley (1548–1594)
Access:
Not on view
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:109
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Frances Clinton (d. 1623), was the fifth daughter of Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, and the wife of Giles Brydges (1548-1594), 3rd Baron Chandos of Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, where Queen Elizabeth visited Lord and Lady Chandos twice, in 1576 and 1592.

Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2005

Steeve O. Buckridge, African Lace - Bark in the Caribbean : The Construction of Race, Class and Gender, Bloomsbury, London, New York, 2016, p. 61, fig. 2.6, GN432 B84 2016 [ORBIS]

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 22-23, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]

The Burlington Magazine, 162, The Burlington Magazine Publications Ltd., London, 1948-, p. 733, fig. 5, N1 B87 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]

Edward Town, George Gower: Portraitist, Mercer, Serjeant Painter, Burlington Magazine, vol.162, September 2020, p. 733, fig. 5, N1 B87 v.162 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

Ian Tyers, The tree-ring analysis of 23 panel paintings from the Yale Center for British Art , New Haven : dendrochronological consultancy report 470, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2011, pp. 13, 16, 17, 18-22, 38, 81, fig. 3, CC78.3 .T94 2011 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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