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The Pelican Portrait is an oil painting of Queen Elizabeth I of England on a wood panel, named for the pelican pendant shown on Elizabeth's breast. It is generally attributed to Nicholas Hilliard, on
Nicholas Hilliard Elizabeth I The Pelican Portrait FXD
Detail with pendant
The "Phoenix Portrait"
Margaret "Daisy" Howard, Countess of Suffolk was an American-born heiress who married into the British aristocracy and was known as one of the "Million Dollar Princesses".
Pelican Portrait
…there was an unreliable Howard family tradition that Queen Elizabeth had given it to his family. It passed by descent through the Earls of Suffolk to Margaret Howard, Countess of Suffolk, who in 1930 sold it to Spink & Son for a collector, Alderman E. Peter Jones. He gave it to the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, in 1945. Jones, of…
Portrait of Daisy Leiter, by John Singer Sargent, 1898
The Countess of Suffolk, 1910.