Keywords: people indoor The sitter has been identified as Hester Puckering (d. 1592), who married Edward Wotton in 1575. He had a garden at Canterbury where he employed John Tradescant the Elder. The costume and style would suggest a date of c. 1580. Hester Puckering was born illegitimately. She was the daughter of Sir William Puckering. She married Edward Wotton, 1st Baron Wotton of Marley, son of Thomas Wotton and Elizabeth Rudston, on 1 September 1575 at Boughton Malherbe, Kent, England. She died on 8 May 1592. The sitter has been identified as Hester Puckering (d. 1592), who married Edward Wotton in 1575. He had a garden at Canterbury where he employed John Tradescant the Elder. The costume and style would suggest a date of c. 1580. Hester Puckering was born illegitimately. She was the daughter of Sir William Puckering. She married Edward Wotton, 1st Baron Wotton of Marley, son of Thomas Wotton and Elizabeth Rudston, on 1 September 1575 at Boughton Malherbe, Kent, England. She died on 8 May 1592. |