A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling (Anne Lovell?) by Hans Holbein the Younger

A Tudor woman sits very still while a red squirrel on a chain nibbles a nut in her lap and a starling perches in the vine behind her, beak pointed at her ear. Her white fur cap is sewn from many small ermine pelts, and Holbein showed the seams with layers of gray-brown paint. The animals are probably clues to who she is: squirrels nibbling nuts appear on the Lovell family's coats of arms, and "starling" may be a pun on East Harling, their home. That is why the title still has a question mark.

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1527. Museum-grade giclee print of the public-domain original.