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Portrait of a Woman (traditionally said to be Lucy Hutchinson, née Apsley, 1620–1681, wife and biographer of Colonel John Hutchinson, Governor of Nottingham Castle)

John Souch (c.1593–1645)

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Portrait of a Woman

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Lucy Hutchinson was a remarkable woman. She was well educated, which was most unusual for women in the early 1600s. Devoted to her husband, she used her family connections to campaign for a lenient sentence for him as a regicide, on the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660. Following his death, Lucy felt her husband’s name needed to be cleared: the biography she wrote to explain his behaviour, ‘Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson’, was one of the first to be written by a woman. It was not published until 1806, but its success and significance have meant that, today, she is better known to historians than her husband.

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Title

Portrait of a Woman

Date

c.1643

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 89 x W 77 cm (E)

Accession number

NAM. 2006-06-9

Acquisition method

purchased at Sotheby’s, 2006

Work type

Painting

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John Souch

c.1593–1645

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