Lady Mary Villiers (1622–1685), Lady Herbert, Later Duchess of Lennox and Richmond, as Saint Agnes by Sir Anthonis van Dyck (Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum and Village - Lacock, near Chippenham, Wiltshire UK)

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Lady Mary wears a jeweled hair ornament with a proto-hurluberlu coiffure in this van Dyck portrait. Her sleeves are very distended. Scalloping is fashionable as reflected by the scalloped hem of her skirt.

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Lady Mary Villiers (1622–1685), Lady Herbert, Later Duchess of Lennox and Richmond, as Saint Agnes by Sir Anthonis van Dyck (Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum and Village - Lacock, near Chippenham, Wiltshire UK)