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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.

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

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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