Portraiture of Elizabeth I
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The portraiture of Queen Elizabeth I spans the evolution of English royal portraits in the early modern period, from the earliest representations of simple likenesses to the later complex imagery used
Portrait of Elizabeth I 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.
Elizabeth I of England has inspired artistic and cultural works for over four centuries. The following lists cover various media, enduring works of high art, and recent representations in popular cult
Portraiture of Elizabeth I
…Artists of the Tudor Court Cultural depictions of Elizabeth I of England Arnold, Janet: "The 'Coronation' Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I", The Burlington Magazine, CXX, 1978, pp. 727–41…
Elizabeth I, by Steven van der Meulen, 1560s
Allegoric representation of Elizabeth I with the goddesses Juno, Athena, and Venus/Aphrodite, by Joris Hoefnagel or Hans Eworth, ca 1569
Publicity photo of Bette Davis and Errol Flynn as Elizabeth and Robert Devereux respectively in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939).