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Frances, Countess of Surrey, c1532-1533 (1945). Artist: Hans Holbein the Younger

Frances, Countess of Surrey, c1532-1533 (1945). Frances Howard, (nee de Vere), Countess of Surrey (c. 1516-1577) was daughter of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, and Elizabeth Trussell. She married firstly, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, son of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, and Elizabeth Stafford, by whom she had two sons and three daughtersThe drawing is part of the Royal Collection Trust, Windsor Castle. From The Drawings of Holbein at Windsor Castle by K. T. Parker. [The Phaidon Press Ltd, Oxford & London, 1945]

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Study for The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons, 1787

Study for The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons, 1787. Painted on the eve of the French Revolution and exhibited shortly after the fall of the Bastille in 1789. An episode from the life of Lucius Junius Brutus

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Sacrifice Offered before a Statue of Jupiter, 17th century. Creator: Louis de Boullogne

Sacrifice Offered before a Statue of Jupiter, 17th century

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