Maybe he is friends with the bassist 
I dont
With that slight smile I suspect she may have been doing some âknowingâ
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She knew that the man she was with could afford Rogier van der Weyden and that would put a smile on her face. Itâs remarkable that her face is young but her hands are just a little less so âŚ
EDIT: Reading up about it Wiki says itâs widely believed, but unproven, that she is modeled on van der Weydenâs own wife.
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Interestingly the BlueSky thread I spotted that one threw up this one by Robert Campin painted around the same time - same model ?
Fashion, innit? The sitters and the patrons would be very keen to show off their wealth and status. Hence the yards of linen for the head dress, and the equally lavish costume. The equivalent of a Rolex (ducks).
I dunno anything about the history of art but did artists have models back in the 15th century ? Somehow I thought that when it came to women they were either painting someone from a Bible story (mostly the virgin Mary, or perhaps a saint, so by definition âperfectâ*) or someone that they were being paid to paint.
I could believe that someone rich enough might want more than one image of his wife or daughter and might go to two different painters for a bit of variety.
*Maybe the exception is the crowd scenes in Hieronymus Bosch or Pieter Bruegel, but van der Weyden is fifty years before the former and a hundred before the latter.
Yep, fashion extended into the way the individual would be portrayed by the artists of any given era, a trend that continued into the C19th and beyond - the flattering portrait has always been a means to further commissions. The only thing that changed was each new generationâs ideal of human beauty. Wrinkles, pox-scars, disfigurements, zits, chickstaches and the whole âcauliflower-faceâ thing of the inbred upperclasses tended to be (literally) glossed-over⌠#MedievalPhotoshop 
Iâm not sure myself tbh. Being the same woman I would assume there was plenty money changing hands.
Some did, as confirmed by one of my favourite limericks:
While Titian was mixing rose madder,
His model posed nude on a ladder.
Her position to Titian
Suggested coition
So he nipped up the ladder and had her.
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Ha ha 
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(Titian deffo 16th century though.)
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âMadonna with the big boobiesâ ? (apologies to Alloâ Alloâ)
One of my favourite roads near Larne where I grew up, bit of a car breaker.
Locally known as The Seven Sisters
Look closely and you can see all the sump/diff gouges.
Night time was good as you would get sparks.
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Chris Spedding with Sex Pistols at Majestic Studios, 146 Clapham High Street in London, UK, May 12, 1976.
Photo by Ray Stevenson
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I recall walking quite closely behind him along a corridor at the Top Rank club in Birmingham that year. He was very tall and gangly, mustâve been 6â5 at least
