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3 unusual facts about Sir John Donne


Sir John Donne

In the 1470s he commissioned the Donne Triptych, an triptych altarpiece by Hans Memling now in the National Gallery, London.

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The Donne Triptych by Hans Memling would presumably have been made in Bruges, and is believed to date from the 1470s.

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In the portrait he and his wife wear lavish Yorkist gold collar chains of suns and roses with the personal livery of Edward in pendants of his emblem, a lion, both in white ronde bosse enamel with gold highlights, clutching a ruby in their raised paws.



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