_Nicolas Lucidel_ (German: 1527-1590).
Lucidel (a name which is supposed to be a corruption of
Neufchatel) studied painting at Antwerp, and afterwards settled
at Nuremberg. This picture, dated 1561, was formally ascribed
to Sir Antonio More and supposed to represent Jeanne d'Archel;
but it reveals (says the latest edition of the Official
Catalogue) "in its style and its Upper German costume, the
handiwork of Lucidel."
"The picture is much obscured," says Sir Edward Poynter, "by a coarse
brown varnish. A beautiful example of this master, in the collection of
Lord Spencer, is remarkable for the purity of its colour, and doubtless
this portrait had originally the same qualities" (_The National
Gallery_, i. 294).