# Lady Rich \(Elizabeth Jenks\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil and gold on oak panel, 45 x 34 cm ## Commentary Lady Rich \(Elizabeth Jenks\) c. 1540 Oil and gold on oak panel, 45 x 34 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting is a workshop copy of a lost original by Hans Holbein the Younger. The sitter was identified on the basis of a preliminary drawing by Holbein that is inscribed with Lady Rich's name. Born Elizabeth Jenks, she was the daughter of a well-to-do London spice merchant. In 1535 she married Richard Rich, who ascended to the nobility as the first Baron Rich in 1548, and became lord chancellor in the same year. Holbein's preparatory drawings on paper for pendant portraits of the Riches are preserved in the Royal Collection, Windsor. The corresponding paintings presumably once existed, although none of Sir Richard has survived, and the two remaining of Lady Rich are workshop copies. ## Related artworks - [Adam and Eve]() - [Apollo and the Muses on Parnassus]() - [Charitas]() - [Charles Brandon]() - [Christ as the True Light]() - [Christina of Denmark, Ducchess of Milan \(detail\)]() - [Christina of Denmark, Ducchess of Milan]() - [Courtier of Henry VIII and his Wife]() - [Darmstadt Madonna \(detail\)]() - [Darmstadt Madonna \(detail\)]() - [Darmstadt Madonna \(detail\)]() - [Darmstadt Madonna \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()