Barbara van Beck, portrait by an unknown artist, circa 1650
On 15 September 1657 the diarist John Evelyn had a conversation with an
intelligent, cultured German woman, dressed in the height of fashion,
who played beautifully to him on the harpsichord. She also had “a most
prolix beard, & mustachios, with long locks of haire growing on the
very middle of her nose, exactly like an Island Dog.”Read more here
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