Renaissance Watercolors #09

 

Portrait of Piero de Medici 
- Gherardo di Giovanni del Fora (1445–1497, Italian)
- watercolor on parchment (33 x 21 cm) c.1488
- Biblioteca Nazionale (Naples)

Self-Portrait with a Dog
- Giulio Clovio (1498-1578, Croatian)
- watercolor on parchment (10.7 x 9.7 cm) 1528
- Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna)

Margaret Wotton, Marchioness of Dorset (1485–1535) 
- Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543)
- watercolor on parchment (dia 5.5 cm) frame dated 1576
- Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna)

▪Second wife of Thomas Grey: one of her grandchildren was Lady Jane Grey, who became Queen of England for 9 days before executed
▪She rode in Anne Boleyn's coronation procession in 1533 and stood as one of the godmothers of the future Queen Elizabeth I.

Husband of the eldest daughter Margaret of Sir Thomas More.

Margaret Roper (Margaret More, 1505–1544)
- Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543, German)
- bodycolor on parchment (dia. 4.5 cm) 1535/6
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC)

Eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Moore