Why is this portrait at Oxford University? Because her husband Thomas Pope founded Trinity College there. She was his third and last wife; he died childless. He was her second of three husbands; she also died childless.
Lady Elizabeth wears a severe black dress made brilliantly alive by red under-sleeves and numerous pearls. How much artistic license the 1612 portraitist took is unknown.
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