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Joan Alleyn
British SchoolInscribed 1596
Dulwich Picture Gallery
London, United Kingdom
The sitter is traditionally identified as Joan Woodward (c.1573-1623), step-daughter of the theatrical manager Philip Henslowe. She became Edward Alleyn’s first wife in 1592. In the same year of her death, Alleyn married Constance (1603-before 1636), daughter of the poet John Donne. Both marriages were childless.
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- Title: Joan Alleyn
- Date: Inscribed 1596
- Physical Dimensions: w632 x h791 cm
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil
- Work Nationality: British
- Support: Panel
- School: British School
- Provenance: ?Alleyn Bequest, 1626.
- Inscriptions: upper right:JETS 22/1596
- Further Information: Joan Woodward (c.1573-1623), step daughter of the theatrical manager Philip Henslowe, married Edward Alleyn in 1592. She was buried in the old chapel at Dulwich with a stone inscribed: Here lyeth in Hope of Resurrection, the Body of Joane, the religious and loving wife of Edward Alleyn Esqr. Founder of this Colledge, who departed this mortal Life the 28th of June 1623, being in the 51 year of Her Age.
- Acquisition Method: Alleyn, Edward (Bequest, 1626)
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