Portrait of Lady Dering - The Phoebus Foundation

With Koen Fillet and Dr Katharina Van Cauteren, Chief of Staff of The Phoebus Foundation and Executive Director of The Phoebus Foundation Public Benefit Foundation.

A story of deeply human emotions – devotion to a husband imposed upon her, anxieties about children, fear of untimely death, yet also of a love of beauty, a sense of quality and a secret eye for luxury.


Marcus Gheeraerts II, Portrait of Frances Bell, Lady Dering, c. 1596–1603. Formal portrait of a young noblewoman wearing a lace ruff and translucent headdress, dressed in a richly embroidered gown with floral motifs, set against a dark background, characteristic of English court portraiture around 1600.
Marcus Gheeraerts II, Portrait of Frances Bell, Lady Dering, c.1596-1603

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