The Victoria and Albert Museum’s notes for this state she was 16 when this was painted. She was born on 8 December 1542, so this portrait dates to about 1559.
From svet24.si/clanek/zanimivosti/zanimivo/55a501f889cfb/odsekana-glava-z-lasuljo; spots removed from background and linear flaw removed from her right shoulder with Photoshop.
The spaces between the embroidered ribs of her dress are filled in with sets of three small pearls.
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