Catherine Howard, Lady d’Aubigny (d.1650)

after Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641). Oil painting on canvas, Catherine Howard, Lady d’Aubigny (d.1650), after Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641). A three-quarter-length portrait of a young woman, turned to the right, gazing at the spectator, wearing a pink dress, and holding a garland of flowers in her right hand which is extended in front of her. [on card as F11 Middle Chamber] Another copy of the original painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, of around 1638, the time of her first marriage, is at Kedleston Hall (NT). Daughter of Theophilus Howard, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (1584-1640), her first husband was George Stuart, Lord d’Aubigny, brother of James, Duke of Lenox and Richmond, whom she married in 1638 and was killed in the Battle of Edgehill in 1642. She then married, Sir James Livingstone, 1st Earl of Newburgh (d.1670), with whom she was involved in a plot to rescue Charles I from Hampton Court. After the king’s execution she fled to The Hague and died in exile. Chastleton House, Oxfordshire (Accredited Museum)