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Description: | This portrait has been identified since the eighteenth century as Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, High Steward of Sutton Coldfield and favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. However, the portrait bears little resemblance to him and the costume may be dated to about 1605, four years after his execution. The subject wears a figured white doublet with a slight peascod belly and trunk hose with canions, left hand on a sword with blue velvet belt and baldric embroidered with gold thread. With fine lawn collar and cuffs, and a black gorget decorated with gilt bands of etched scrollwork. There is a matching close helmet with red and white plumes behind. He holds in his hand a lance inscribed: He yt can this ebon Lawnce weilde/Shall have the same, & eke my shield A pendant painting, supposedly of Queen Elizabeth hung with it at Drayton Manor. | Subjects: | Robert portrait (Devereux 2nd Earl of Essex (?)) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: British School Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to Geeraerts, Marcus, the younger (Flemish painter, 1561-1635, active in England) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9161... | Go to resource |
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