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Description: | Oil on panel. This portrait is one of the so-called ‘Ditchley’ pattern portraits. It is was painted after a larger, more elaborate portrait, once in the collection at Ditchley House in Oxfordshire and now at the National Portrait Gallery, London, painted by Gheeraert the Younger. Ditchley House was the home of Sir Henry Lee (1533-1611), responsible for the supply of munitions and equipment to the army and navy as Master of the Armoury under Queen Elizabeth I. Lee was a regular patron of Gheeraert the Younger and commissioned the work on which this painting is based. There are several ‘Ditchley’ pattern portraits of Elizabeth I. Others are in the collections at Blickling Hall, Norfolk; the Pitti Palace, Florence; and Burghley House in Lincolnshire. | Subjects: | bracelet wig ruff Queen Elizabeth I queen royal portrait pearls dress woman 16th century costume earring necklace | Temporal: | c.1592-1603; 1592/1603 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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