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IMG_7505-Edit.jpg Montecute House - Somerset - © A Santillo 2017

Painting of Elizabeth I (1533-1603) by an unknown artist - this is part of the National Portrait Galleries collect. Queen Elizabeth is shown richly dressed, wearing a heart-shaped jewel pendant and holding a white ostrich feather. This portrait was not the result of a sitting but instead uses a face pattern from an earlier portrait of the Queen. This is one of a group of similar portraits which together provide evidence of the increased demand for the Queen's image in the 1580's.


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