A Girl, Probably Cecilia Egerton
Paul van Somer
1617
The sitter wears on her bodice an oval jewel forming the crowned cipher "S," which (being the first letter of the name of Sophie of Mecklenburg, King James I's mother-in-law, the mother of his queen, Anne of Denmark) had strong royal connotations in Jacobean England.
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