This portrait shows the nun Elena Anguissola, a novice with the name of Sister Minerva.

The painting is signed and dated but difficult to read: : SOPHONISBA ANGUSSOLA VIRGO M [...] TERI AGO.TI PINXIT MDLI.

Flavio Caroli completed the inscription, adding the following: MONASTERI SANCTI AGOSTINI.

[2] The Portrait of Elena Anguissola was in the collection of the Earl of Yaborough, remaining there until 1936, when it was acquired by the museum in Southampton.

The young nun holds in her hands a tiny book covered with red leather and trimmed with gold.