Those portraying Elizabeth I often include symbolic emblems ... Her analyses of the Ermine Portrait and the Rainbow Portrait expanded Strong's thinking. 'From this,' he tells us, 'much was to ...

Elizabeth I and her People at the National Portrait Gallery parades art which favours flaunting wealth over probing the psyche of its subject 'Queen Elizabeth I, The Ermine Portrait', Nicholas ...

The fur is ermine, a symbol of royalty ... Other symbols used in portraits of Elizabeth include dogs that refer to fidelity, columns that allude to rising classical values and their perceived ...

The recumbent effigy resembles portraits of the Queen in old age ... shows the queen wearing an ermine lined crimson robe with a blue orb in her hand, a coloured dress and flesh colouring on her face.

This carefully cultivated image, similar to that seen in many later portraits of the queen, strives to maintain the myth of Elizabeth’s youthful beauty by masking the hallmarks of old age.

about the work A miniature 16th Century portrait of Elizabeth I that turned up in a house clearance sale is to go on show at the National Portrait Gallery. The gallery bought the previously ...

Long thought to be an anonymous portrait, a painting of a woman holding a rose is now said by Bonham’s auction house to be an early portrait of the legendary English Queen Elizabeth I.

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 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The earliest known full-length portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, thought to have been commissioned to help the English monarch "advertise" herself to potential suitors, sold on ...

A miniature 16th Century portrait of Elizabeth I that turned up in a house clearance sale is to go on show at the National Portrait Gallery. The gallery bought the previously unknown miniature at ...