Queen Elizabeth I
Unknown English artist
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), Reigned 1558-1603.
This painting is known as 'The Coronation portrait', and shows the Queen crowned, wearing the cloth of gold that she wore at her coronation on 15 January 1559, previously worn by Mary I. She holds the orb and sceptre, symbols of her authority. The portrait appears to have been painted in about 1600, and is probably a copy of a lost original from circa 1559.
c. 1600
Oil on panel
1273.0 x 997.0mm
NPG 5175
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