William Larkin received portrait commissions from the court of King James I of England and members of the country gentry. The model of this portrait is wearing an ornately decorated, deep-cut black dress with a magnificent lace collar and fashionable pearl jewellery, which ensemble was a characteristic attire of noble ladies in the Jacobean period. Larkin’s style of portraiture had its roots in the Elizabethan painterly tradition: his figures are presented with highly idealised facial features, in intricately patterned garments, whose flat, decorative details play an emphatic role in the picture. During his brief career, Larkin also proved increasingly innovative at combining the local, archaic tradition of portraiture with new influences from the continent, making him an outstanding example of the change in British painting that took place at the start of the seventeenth century.
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