The Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I of England is the name of any of three surviving versions of an allegorical panel painting depicting the Tudor queen surrounded by symbols of royal majesty against a backdrop representing the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588.
Armada Portrait
National Portrait Gallery version
The "Drake" version, now at Queen's House, Royal Museums Greenwich
Portraiture of Elizabeth I
The portraiture of Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603) spans the evolution of English royal portraits in the early modern period (1400/1500-1800), from the earliest representations of simple likenesses to the later complex imagery used to convey the power and aspirations of the state, as well as of the monarch at its head.
Portrait of Elizabeth I of England in her coronation robes. Copy c. 1600–1610 of a lost original of c. 1559. The pose echoes the famous portrait of Richard II in Westminster Abbey, the second known portrait of a British sovereign.
One of many portraits of its type, with a reversed Darnley face pattern, c. 1585–90, artist unknown
Elizabeth "in blacke with a hoode and cornet", the Clopton Portrait, c. 1558–60
A copy of Holbein's Whitehall Mural.