The earliest known full-length portrait of Queen Elizabeth I ... According to Sotheby's, the oil on canvas was given by Elizabeth to the Hampden family during a visit to the mansion which it ...

The earliest known full-length portrait of Queen Elizabeth I ... According to Sotheby's, the oil on canvas was given by Elizabeth to the Hampden family during a visit to the mansion which it ...

In 2007, Mould purchased the Hampden portrait of Elizabeth for $3.4 million. In July, the monarch’s famous Armada portrait was sold for nearly $12.5 million in London, thanks to a large grant ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The earliest known full-length portrait of Queen Elizabeth ... the oil on canvas was given by Elizabeth to the Hampden family during a visit to the mansion which it owned.

THE ELIZABETHAN IMAGE: AN INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH PORTRAITURE 1558 TO 1603 by Roy Strong (Yale £35, 224 pp) To meet Elizabeth I face to face, head to the National Portrait Gallery in London.

One of the three Armada portraits of Queen Elizabeth I Woburn Abbey Collection After weeks of bitter conflict in summer 1588, England vanquished a tremendous fleet of 130 Spanish ships known as ...

A rare portrait of a young Elizabeth I, which has never before been reproduced or put on public display, has been discovered in the Duke of Buccleuch’s private collection at Boughton House in ...

Elizabeth I was expert at what we now call public relations, and she was careful to control the distribution of images of herself. Katherine Coombes explains how the 'Virgin Queen' used portrait ...

A mysterious image of a coiled snake has appeared in a 16th century painting of Queen Elizabeth I, the National Portrait Gallery has said. The Tudor queen was depicted with the snake clasped in her ...