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.

You may not have liked the Duchess of Cambridge’s first official portrait – but at least she got off more lightly than Elizabeth I. A painting of the Tudor monarch has gone on display which ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elizabeth is believed to have been around 26 when the portrait was painted The painting, which had lain unnoticed in the dirty loft for more than a century, depicts the Queen as a pale ...

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 miniature 16th Century portrait of Elizabeth I that turned up in a house ... The queen is featured dressed in ermine alongside a peacock in the painting by Isaac Oliver titled Elizabeth I ...