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Tatler cover - Mrs Peter Thorneycroft by Madame Yevonde

Mrs Peter Thorneycroft, formerly Countess Carla Roberti, wife of the President of the Board of Trade pictured posed in front of an over mantel mirror by Madame Yevonde. Date: 1954

© Yevonde Portrait Archive/ILN/Mary Evans Picture Library

Carla, Class, Countess, Jun17, Mirror, Mrs, Peter, Portrait, Portraits, Roberti, Thorneycroft, Upper, Wife

Wife of Hasdrubal and Her Children, c.1490-3 (tempera on poplar panel)

XOS1766014 Wife of Hasdrubal and Her Children, c.1490-3 (tempera on poplar panel) by Roberti, Ercole de (c.1453-96); 47.3x30.6 cm; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA; (add.info.: Hasdrubal the Boetharch was a Carthaginian general who defended the city when it was besieged in 146 BC by the Romans during the 3rd Punic War. After he surrendered to the Romans, his wife took their two sons and committed suicide by jumping into a burning building.); Italian, out of copyright

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Ginevra Bentivoglio, 1474-1477. Artist: Ercole de Roberti

Ginevra Bentivoglio, 1474-1477. Ginevra Sforza (1440-1507), noblewoman, wife and counselor of Giovanni II Bentivoglio. The painting is part of the Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. From Masterpieces of Painting, edited by Huntington Cairns and John Walker. [National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Random House, New York, N.Y. 1944]

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