Keywords: WLA vanda Portrait of a Lady by Botticelli.jpg Portrait of a Lady Known as Smeralda Bandinelli WLA vanda CAI 100 VeronikaB VeronikaB 26353752 N02 3245166505 ca 1470 creator Sandro Botticelli tempera poplar panel cm institution Victoria and Albert Museum object history exhibition history credit line Purchased by Constantine Alexander Ionides from D G Rossetti in 1880 for £315 Bequeathed by Ionides 1901 An old inscription states that this portrait shows the grandmother of the sculptor Baccio Bandinelli Earlier Florentine portraits were in profile The woman's three-quarter pose with her hand on the window frame was Botticelli's own invention accession number Museum no CAI 100 PD-old-100-1923 cc-by-2 5 Kaldari 2009-09 possiblyPD Smeralda Brandini Botticelli |