# Lady Rich [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Black and coloured chalks, pen and ink, and metalpoint on pale pink prepared paper, 375 x 302 mm ## Commentary Sir Richard Rich \(c. 1496-1567\) ascended to the nobility as the first Baron Rich in 1548, and became lord chancellor in the same year. In 1535 he married Elizabeth Jenks, daughter of a well-to-do London spice merchant. Holbein made preparatory drawings on paper for pendant portraits of the couple. 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]()