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Faces of Queen Elizabeth I

The Phoenix Jewel
The Phoenix Jewel
© British Museum

Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I: The Middle Years (1573-1587)




Queen Elizabeth riding the chariot of Fame
Queen Elizabeth riding the chariot of Fame.
Sir William Teshe, 1570. BL Sloane MS 1832.


The Pelican Portrait of Queen Elizabeth
"The Pelican Portrait", c. 1575.
Attr. to Nicholas Hilliard.
© Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Museums.

The Phoenix Portrait of Queen Elizabeth
"The Phoenix Portrait", c. 1575.
Attr. to Nicholas Hilliard.
© National Portrait Gallery, London.

Portrait of Queen Elizabeth, Rothschild Collection
"The Waddesdon Portrait", c. 1575.
Attr. to Nicholas Hilliard.
Private Collection, Rothschild Family.

Portrait of Queen Elizabeth, after the Phoenix Portrait
Queen Elizabeth, 17th c.
Artist Unknown.
Private Collection.

Queen Elizabeth I miniature by Nicholas Hilliard, c. 1572
Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1572
Miniature by Nicholas Hilliard.
© National Portrait Gallery, London.

Elizabeth I miniature, c1575, by Hilliard. Sold at Bonhams 25 Nov 2009.

Elizabeth I, c1575.
Nicholas Hilliard.
Private Collection.

Queen Elizabeth, c.1575.
Queen Elizabeth, c.1575
Nicholas Hilliard
Private Collection.


Queen Elizabeth Playing the Lute, c. 1576

Queen Elizabeth Lute Miniature,
Nicholas Hilliard, c. 1576
Berkeley Castle.


Queen Elizabeth Receiving Dutch Ambassadors, 1585.
Queen Elizabeth Receiving Dutch Ambassadors, 1570-1575.
Artist Unknown. Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany.


Queen Elizabeth. The Darnley Portrait, c. 1575
"The Darnley Portrait", c. 1575.
Attr. to Federico Zuccaro.
© National Portrait Gallery, London.

Zuccaro drawing of Queen Elizabeth I, 1575.
Sketch of Queen Elizabeth I, 1575.
Federico Zuccaro.
© British Museum.

Elizabeth I in Red Parliamentary Robes
Album Amicorum of a German Soldier
(Stated Italy, 1595, but costume and
headdress suggest c1580.—AJ.)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Queen Elizabeth, c. 1580.
Queen Elizabeth I, c.1580.
Attr. to George Gower.
Queen Elizabeth, c. 1580.
Queen Elizabeth I, c.1580.
Attr. to George Gower.
Old Schools, University of Cambridge.
Queen Elizabeth c1575
Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1580.
Studio of Marcus Gheeraerts?
Government Art Collection, UK.
Queen Elizabeth, c. 1575
Queen Elizabeth I, c.1580.
Artist Unknown.
© The Royal Collection.
Portrait of Queen Elizabeth
Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1580.
Artist Unknown.
Private Collection.

Queen Elizabeth, c. 1575, holding a pomander
Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1580.
Artist Unknown.
Private Collection.
Queen Elizabeth by Unknown Painter, 1575-1580
Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1580.
Artist Unknown. (Paint has turned blue)
© National Portrait Gallery, London


Portrait of Queen Elizabeth, Richmond Town Hall
Queen Elizabeth with a Fan, 17th c.
Artist Unknown.
Richmond Town Hall.

Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1580
Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1580.
Artist Unknown.
Westminster School.
Queen Elizabeth, c. 1580
Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1580.
Artist Unknown. (Paint has turned blue)
© Reading Museum.


Elizabeth I in Red Parliamentary Robes
Elizabeth I in Parliament Robes, c1585-90.
Artist Unknown (prev. attr. to Gheeraerts).
Helmingham Hall, Stowmarket.

Elizabeth Portrait Frontispiece from Saxton's Atlas
Elizabeth Portrait Frontispiece
from Saxton's Atlas (1579).


Elizabeth Portrait Frontispiece from Saxton's Atlas
Elizabeth Portrait Frontispiece
from Saxton's Atlas (1579).


Queen Elizabeth. The Plimpton Sieve Portrait
"The Plimpton Sieve Portrait", 1579.
Attr. to George Gower.
© Folger Shakespeare Library.

Queen Elizabeth. The Red Sieve Portrait
"The Red Sieve Portrait", 1579.
Attr. to George Gower.
Private Collection.


Queen Elizabeth with a Sieve
"The Sieve Portrait", c. 1580-1583.
Attr. to Quentin Metsys, the Younger.
Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena.

Queen Elizabeth with a Sieve
Copy of "The Sieve Portrait", c. 1583.
Artist Unknown.
Collection of the Duke of Hamilton.

Queen Elizabeth I, after the sieve portrait.
Queen Elizabeth I, c.1583.
Unknown Artist.
Eton College.


Queen Elizabeth I by Zuccaro
Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1580.
Unknown Artist.
British Embassy, Portugal.
[Government Art Collection, UK.]


Queen Elizabeth I, after Quentin Metsys. Bonhams, 2012.
Queen Elizabeth I, c.1585
After Quentin Metsys.
Private collection.


Queen Elizabeth I by Marcus Gheeraerts
Queen Elizabeth I, c.1580-85.
Marcus Gheeraerts, the Younger.
Private Collection.


Queen Elizabeth I, after the Siena sieve portrait.
After "The Sieve Portrait", post-1583.
After Quentin Metsys.
Private Collection.


Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1580.
Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1575-80.
Artist Unknown.
Queen's College, Cambridge.


Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1580.
Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1575-80.
Attr. to Nicholas Hilliard.
Ambras Castle, Austria.


Unknown Portrait of Elizabeth
Queen Elizabeth I, c.1585.
Artist Unknown.


Queen Elizabeth I by Marcus Gheeraerts
Queen Elizabeth I, 1580s.
Unknown Artist.
Private Collection, via
Philip Mould & Co.


Queen Elizabeth Watercolour on Vellum
Queen Elizabeth Watercolour Miniature on Vellum, 1586-7.
Nicholas Hilliard. ©Victoria and Albert Museum.

Hilliard miniature of Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1586. The Rijksmuseum, Netherlands
Elizabeth I, c. 1586.
Nicholas Hilliard.
The Rijksmuseum, Netherlands.


Hilliard miniature of Queen Elizabeth I of England, c. 1585. The Royal Collection
Elizabeth I, c. 1585.
Nicholas Hilliard.
The Royal Collection.



Elizabeth and Leicester Dancing (though not the Volta), c.1580
Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Dancing, 1580s.
Artist Unknown (although sometimes attributed to Gheeraerts).
The Collection of Viscount de L'Isle, Penshurst Place, Kent.


The Drewe Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1586. By Federico Zucchero
"The Drewe Portrait", c. 1586.
Attr. to George Gower.
© Philip Mould Ltd.


The Kitchener Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1590.
"The Kitchener Portrait", 1585-1590.
Artist Unknown.
Private Collection.


Queen Elizabeth with a Fan, 1585-1590.
Queen Elizabeth I with a Fan, 1585-1590.
Artist Unknown.
© The Royal Collection.


Queen Elizabeth in dress embroidered with armillary spheres, 1585-1590
The Armillary Portrait, c.1585.
Artist Unknown.
Private Collection.


Queen Elizabeth Fan Portrait, by John Bettes
Queen Elizabeth with a Fan, 1585-1590.
Attr. to John Bettes the Younger.
Hever Castle, Kent.


Queen Elizabeth with a Fan, 1585-1590
Queen Elizabeth I with a Fan, c.1585.
Attr. to John Bettes the Younger.
© National Portrait Gallery, London.


Queen Elizabeth with a Fan, 1585-
Queen Elizabeth I with a Fan, 1585-1590.
Attr. to John Bettes the Younger.
Private Collection.


Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1600
Queen Elizabeth I with a fan, c.1590.
Attr. John Bettes the Younger.
Pollok House, Glasgow.
The Penshurst Place portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, c.1578
"The Penshurst Portrait", c.1578.
After Zucchero.
Penshurst Place, Kent.
© Viscount de L'isle.
Queen Elizabeth by Unknown, c. 1570.
Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1585.
Attr. to John Bettes the Younger.
© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.


Elizabeth in green gown, damaged. National Museum of Wales
Queen Elizabeth I, late 16thC.
After Zucchero.
Amgueddfa Cymru—National Museum of Wales.


Queen Elizabeth I with a fan, Bristol Museums
Queen Elizabeth I with a Fan, 1585-1590.
Artist Unknown.
Private Collection.
On Loan to Bristol Museums.


Queen Elizabeth I with a Fan, Yale Elizabethan Club
Queen Elizabeth with a Fan, 1585-1590.
Artist Unknown.
The Yale Elizabethan Club.



Queen Elizabeth. The Ermine Portrait.
"The Ermine Portrait", c.1585.
Nicholas Hilliard.
Hatfield House.


Queen Elizabeth. Copy of the Ermine Portrait.
Copy of the "Ermine Portrait", after 1585.
Unknown artist.
Penrhyn Castle, Wales.


Queen Elizabeth. Watercolor miniature by Nicholas Hilliard, Nationalmuseum, Sweden.
Elizabeth I, 1586-7.
Nicholas Hilliard.
Nationalmuseum, Sweden.


Queen Elizabeth. Watercolor miniature by Nicholas Hilliard, 1583-1587
Elizabeth I, 1583-7.
Nicholas Hilliard,
The Royal Collection.


Queen Elizabeth. The Peace Portrait. Marcus Gheeraerts, c.1585.
"The Welbeck Portrait", c.1585.
aka "Wanstead Portrait," "Peace Portrait."
Marcus Gheeraerts, the Elder.
Portland Collection, Harley Gallery.


Queen Elizabeth. Copy of the Peace Portrait, 1588
The Civilles Portrait, 1588.
A copy of the "Peace Portrait."
Artist unknown.
Private Collection.




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Thomas, Earl of Lancaster
Roger Mortimer, Earl of March

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Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence
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Edmund Mortimer, 3. Earl of March
Roger Mortimer, 4. Earl of March
Edmund Mortimer, 5. Earl of March
Sir Henry Percy, "Harry Hotspur"
Owen Glendower
Henry IV
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John, Duke of Bedford
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Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter
Cardinal Henry Beaufort
John Beaufort, Earl of Somerset
Catherine of Valois
Owen Tudor

Charles VII, King of France
Joan of Arc
Louis XI, King of France
Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy


The Wars of the Roses 1455-1485
Causes of the Wars of the Roses
The House of Lancaster
The House of York
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The House of Neville

The First Battle of St. Albans, 1455
The Battle of Blore Heath, 1459
The Rout of Ludford, 1459
The Battle of Northampton, 1460
The Battle of Wakefield, 1460
The Battle of Mortimer's Cross, 1461
The Second Battle of St. Albans, 1461
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The Battle of Hedgeley Moor, 1464
The Battle of Hexham, 1464
The Battle of Edgecote, 1469
The Battle of Barnet, 1471
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The Treaty of Pecquigny, 1475
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Henry VI
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Anthony Woodville, 2. Earl Rivers
Jane Shore
Edward V
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George Neville, Archbishop of York
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Margaret Beaufort
Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond
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Thomas, Lord Stanley, Earl of Derby
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Henry Bourchier, Earl of Essex
John Mowbray, 3. Duke of Norfolk
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John Howard, Duke of Norfolk
Henry Percy, 4. E. Northumberland
William, Lord Hastings
Henry Holland, Duke of Exeter
William Herbert, 1. Earl of Pembroke
John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford
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Thomas de Clifford, 8. Baron Clifford
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John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester
Thomas Grey, 1. Marquis Dorset
Sir Andrew Trollop
Archbishop John Morton
Edward Plantagenet, E. of Warwick
John Talbot, 2. E. Shrewsbury
John Talbot, 3. E. Shrewsbury
John de la Pole, 2. Duke of Suffolk
John de la Pole, E. of Lincoln
Edmund de la Pole, E. of Suffolk
Richard de la Pole
Sir James Tyrell
Jack Cade's Rebellion, 1450


Tudor Period

King Henry VII
Queen Elizabeth of York
Lambert Simnel
Perkin Warbeck

King Ferdinand II of Aragon
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Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor

King Henry VIII
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King Edward VI
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Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland
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The Battle of Flodden Field, 1513
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Mary Tudor, Queen of France
Louis XII, King of France
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The Battle of the Spurs, 1513
Field of the Cloth of Gold, 1520
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
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Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
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Sir Richard Rich

Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham
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John Russell, Earl of Bedford
Thomas Grey, 2. Marquis of Dorset
Henry Grey, D. of Suffolk
George Talbot, 4. E. Shrewsbury
Francis Talbot, 5. E. Shrewsbury
Henry Algernon Percy,
     5th Earl of Northumberland
Henry Algernon Percy,
     6th Earl of Northumberland
Ralph Neville, 4. E. Westmorland
Henry Neville, 5. E. Westmorland
William Paulet, Marquis of Winchester
Sir Francis Bryan
John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford
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Thomas Seymour, Lord Admiral
Edward Seymour, Protector Somerset
Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury
Henry Pole, Lord Montague
Sir Geoffrey Pole
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George Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon
Henry Courtenay, Marquis of Exeter
William, Lord Paget
George Brooke, Lord Cobham
Sir Richard Southwell
Thomas Fiennes, 9th Lord Dacre
Lady Jane Grey
Sir Thomas Arundel
Sir Thomas Wyatt, the Younger

Cardinal Lorenzo Campeggio
Cardinal Reginald Pole
Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester
Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London
Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London
John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester
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Thomas Linacre
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Edward Fox, Bishop of Hereford

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Pico della Mirandola
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Martin Bucer
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Thomas Tallis
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Hans Holbein, the Younger
The Sweating Sickness

Dissolution of the Monasteries
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Robert Aske
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Sir Robert Constable

Oath of Supremacy
The Act of Supremacy, 1534
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The Ten Articles, 1536
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The Second Statute of Repeal, 1555
The Act of Supremacy, 1559
Articles Touching Preachers, 1583

William Cecil, Lord Burghley
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
Sir Francis Walsingham
Sir Nicholas Bacon
Sir Thomas Bromley

Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
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Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon
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Sir Francis Knollys
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George Talbot, 6. E. of Shrewsbury
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Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex
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Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich
Sir Christopher Hatton
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Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland
Thomas Radcliffe, 3. Earl of Sussex
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Robert Radcliffe, 5. Earl of Sussex
William Parr, Marquis of Northampton
Henry Wriothesley, 2. Southampton
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Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk
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Henry Hastings, 3. E. of Huntingdon
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King Charles II
King James II
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Greenwich Palace
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Windsor Palace
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The Cinque Ports
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Malmsey Wine
Great Fire of London, 1666
Merchant Taylors' School
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The Sanctuary at Westminster
"Sanctuary"


Images:

Chart of the English Succession from William I through Henry VII

Medieval English Drama

London in the time of Henry VII. MS. Roy. 16 F. ii.
London, 1510, the earliest view in print
Map of England from Saxton's Descriptio Angliae, 1579
Location Map of Elizabethan London
Plan of the Bankside, Southwark, in Shakespeare's time
Detail of Norden's Map of the Bankside, 1593
Bull and Bear Baiting Rings from the Agas Map (1569-1590, pub. 1631)
Sketch of the Swan Theatre, c. 1596
Westminster in the Seventeenth Century, by Hollar
Visscher's Panoramic View of London, 1616. COLOR
c. 1690. View of London Churches, after the Great Fire
The Yard of the Tabard Inn from Thornbury, Old and New London




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