Lane Eagles is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington, Seattle focusing on late medieval and Renaissance art history. She received her B.A. from the University of Oklahoma and her M.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research focuses on gender and fashion in early modern visual culture. She is currently on the Critical and Contextual Studies faculty at Cornish College of the Arts.
Although the figure in this portrait lacks jewels and brocades, likenesses such as this offer insight into upper-class women’s daily lived experience.