Hey friends, welcome to the Renaissance English History podcast.

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search for Heather. And there I am. So let's get right into it. So today's woman is someone who,

if you have been looking at Tudor portraits, at portraits of the court for any kind of length of

time, I promise you you will have very likely seen something that she did. She was an artist.

She was the court painter, and she's

very famous for her miniatures. She is Levina Tierlink, and she painted under four monarchs.

And she is such an interesting woman. She was a Flemish painter and she moved with her husband to England and rose through the

ranks.

Well, she was actually initially scouted by Henry the 8th and she painted kings, nobility and

like I said, she served under four out of five Tudor monarchs. Her father was a Flemish painter. He specialized in

manuscripts and she also had four sisters. So she was the oldest of five girls and she was born

around 1510. Since her father didn't have a son to train how to paint, he actually trained her

how to paint. And she became an

expert in miniatures. Now, miniatures were these small portraits. They were designed to be worn in a

locket as jewelry. And, you know, you would, they were easy to carry. You could move them. When you

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