<i>Portrait of Frances, Countess of Surrey.</i> Black and coloured chalks, pen and Indian ink, white bodycolour, on pink-primed paper, <span style="white-space:nowrap">31.5 × 21.3 cm</span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Collection" class="extiw" title="w:Royal Collection">Royal Collection</a>, Windsor Castle. The black fall of the headdress may be reworked, and the projection on the left and some of the contours of the sleeve and corsage appear to have been mechanically transferred by indentation (Parker, p. 41).
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Howard,_Countess_of_Surrey" class="extiw" title="w:Frances Howard, Countess of Surrey">Frances de Vere</a> (<i>c.</i> 1516–77) was the daughter of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_de_Vere,_15th_Earl_of_Oxford" class="extiw" title="w:John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford">John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford</a>. In 1522, she married <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>, whom Holbein drew twice, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Howard,_Earl_of_Surrey,_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger.jpg" title="File:Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg">once in a similar frontal pose</a>.
<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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