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Summary

Artist
Levina Teerlinc  (1510/1520–1576)  wikidata:Q443442
 
Levina Teerlinc
Alternative names
Lievine Bening, Lievine Teerlinc, Lievine Terlinc, Lievine Terling, Levina Bening
Description Southern Netherlandish court painter, miniaturist and drawer
Date of birth/death between 1510 and 1520
date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1510-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1520-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
23 June 1576 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Bruges or Ghent London Edit this at Wikidata
Work period from 1546 until 1576
date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1546-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1576-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q443442
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: Portrait Miniature of Elizabeth I when a Princess by Levina Teerlinc

Known as 'the Paine Miniature'.

Lee Porritt has written about this miniature in The Paine Miniature – Is it Elizabeth? at https://ladyjanegreyrevisited.com/2021/05/12/the-paine-miniature-is-it-elizabeth/:

"A Memento Mori or skull is depicted on right-hand side of the miniature with the wording: AHI MORTE TU TOGLI & NUNQUA RENDI TU PRESTI & MAINON PAGHI placed vertically along the side of the sitter.

‘Remember you have to die’, is the rough translation for the Latin word Memento Mori. The symbolic use of the skull, rotten fruit or sometimes a butterfly have been used throughout history to remind viewers that death is inevitable. These symbols became popular in the first half of the sixteenth century and were used in portraiture, jewellery, and illustrations. Today, the image of a skull reminds the modern viewer of danger or a rather morbid obsession with death. However, in the sixteenth century the image of a skull was used as a polite reminder to live life to the full and that death unites everyone as it is the one thing human beings are guaranteed in life.

The inscription [...] appears to be Italian, and roughly translated to ‘Alas death you take away & you never lend & you never pay’, which is again another reminder to the viewer that death will come someday."

In October 1551 Levina Teerlinc was sent with her husband to the Princess Elizabeth 'to drawe out her picture'. (The English Miniature by John Murdoch, Jim Murrell, Patrick J. Noon, Roy Strong, Yale University Press, 1981, p. 41)
Date c. 1551
Source/Photographer https://www.katherinethequeen.com/440082425

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