QUESNEL, Fran�ois
(b. 1543, Edinburgh, d. 1619, Paris)

Mary Ann Waltham

1572
Oil on panel
Althorp House, Northamptonshire

Mary Ann Waltham was Lady in waiting to Mary Queen of Scots. Her portrait, signed with the initials of Fran�ois Quesnel, is typical of the last phase of French sixteenth-century portraiture, when the naturalism of Fran�ois Clouet has been stylised so that the modelling almost disappears and the portrait is dominated by the flat linear pattern.




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