Levina Terlincks portrait of Mary Sidney

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Levina Terlinck a Flemish miniaturist who moved to the English court of Elizabeth painted a large number of portraits of various courtiers but sadly many of them have been sad.

Yes thats why the image quality of this is a bit blurry Its a photo of a miniature which I have enlarged just a bit in an effort to give you some idea of the precision and detail of this work.

Note the fine composition.

Teerlinck is thought to have trained Hilliard. She was the daughter of noted illuminator Simon Bening.

And yes this is Mardy Sidney / Dudley Countess of Pembroke the writer and patroness of other writers. 

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Rufillus snuck a self portrait into another part of a text. 

Enclosed within a letter D we see him either writing on a long piece of paper or possibly scraping and preparing a length of parchment.

I rather like the cheeky touch of Rufillus' shoes resting on the edge of the letter and the way he seems to be almost leaning forward to show us his writing tools.

BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL !