<i>Portrait study of Mary, Duchess of Richmond and Somerset.</i> Black and coloured chalks, ink with brush on pink-primed paper, <span style="white-space:nowrap">26.7 × 20.1 cm</span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Collection" class="extiw" title="w:Royal Collection">Royal Collection</a>, Windsor Castle.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_FitzRoy,_Duchess_of_Richmond_and_Somerset" class="extiw" title="w:Mary FitzRoy, Duchess of Richmond and Somerset">Mary FitzRoy, Duchess of Richmond and Somerset</a> (1519–1557), was a daughter of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Howard,_3rd_Duke_of_Norfolk" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk">Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk</a>, and a sister of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Howard,_Earl_of_Surrey" class="extiw" title="w:Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey">Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey</a>, both of whose portraits Holbein painted. In 1533, she married <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" class="extiw" title="w:Henry VIII of England">Henry VIII</a>'s illegitimate son <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_FitzRoy,_1st_Duke_of_Richmond_and_Somerset" class="extiw" title="w:Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset">Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset</a>, who died in 1536. This drawing is a raw example of Holbein's preliminary notation style for an oil portrait; it includes alternative designs of the hat and lettering, as well as indications that the dress is to be of red and black velvet edged with gold.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Hans_Holbein_the_Younger" class="extiw" title="w:en:Hans Holbein the Younger"><span title="German artist and printmaker (1497-1543)">Hans Holbein the Younger</span></a>
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circa 1532 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1532-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>-3
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