INTRODUCTION
Anecdotes of Painting in England by Horace Walpole, printed by Thomas Kirgate at Strawberry Hill, 1762.
Elizabeth I and the Three Goddesses by Hans Eworth, 1569, oil on panel. Royal Collection Trust, London (Hampton Court Palace, London) RCIN 403446.
The Marriage Feast at Bermondsey by Joris Hoefnagel, c. 1569, oil on panel. Private collection, United Kingdom.
CHAPTER 1: ELIZABETH I AND THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
Bacon cup, Affabel Partridge, 1574, silver gilt. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Bacon cup, Affabel Partridge, 1574, silver gilt. British Museum, London. Museum number: 1915,0313.1.
Longleat, Warminster, Wiltshire.
Hardwick Hall, National Trust, Doe Lea, Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
Burghley House, Peterborough, Stamford, Lincolnshire.
CHAPTER 2: FAMILY AND SURVIVAL: THE EARLY YEARS
The Chequers Ring. Trustees of Chequers, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
Hatfield House, Great North Road, Hatfield, Hertfordshire.
Prayers or Meditations (The prayer book of Princess Elizabeth), 1545, parchment. British Library, London. Shelfmark: Royal MS 7 D X.
The Family of Henry VIII, British School, c. 1545, oil on canvas (support, canvas, panel). Royal Collection Trust, London (Hampton Court Palace, London). RCIN 405796.
Elizabeth I as a Princess, Guillaume Scrots, c. 1546, oil on panel. Royal Collection Trust, London (Windsor Castle, Berkshire). RCIN 404444.
The Tide Letter, Princess Elizabeth, Noon, 17 March 1554. National Archives, Bessant Drive, Richmond. SP 1¼/2 f.3-3v.
The Family of Henry VIII: An Allegory of the Tudor Succession, attributed to Lucas de Heere, 1572, oil on panel. The National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. Accession no: NMW A 564. On view at Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire.
Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, Lucas de Heere, 1559, oil on canvas. St Bavo’s Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium.
CHAPTER 3: ‘GOD HATH RAISED ME HIGH’: ACCESSION AND RELIGION
Coronation Portrait of Elizabeth I, unknown English artist, c. 1600, oil on panel. National Portrait Gallery, London. NPG 5175.
Photographs of the Coronation Portrait taken in 1866. Enquire archives of Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London.
Virginals of Elizabeth I, Giovanni Antonio Baffo?, 1570, painted cypress wood case, made in Venice, purchased in 1887 for £125. Collection of Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Accession no.: 19-1887.
Portrait of Queen Elizabeth of England playing the Lute, Nicholas Hilliard, c. 1576/80, vellum stuck onto card, miniature. Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire.
The Psalter of Henry VIII, Jean Maillart 1540/41, illuminated manuscript. British Library, London. Shelfmark: Royal MS 2 AXVI.
Portrait of Elizabeth I, unknown artist, 1575, oil on panel. Reading Museum, Berkshire. Museum object number REDMG: 1980.168.1.
CHAPTER 4: ‘ONE MISTRESS AND NO MASTER: MARRIAGE GAME
The Darnley Portrait, unknown continental artist, c. 1575, oil on panel. National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 2082.
Portrait of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, unknown Anglo-Netherlandish artist, c. 1575, oil on panel. National Portrait Gallery, London. NPG 447.
The Hampden Portrait, Steven van der Meulen (or George Gower?), c. 1563, oil on canvas transferred to panel. Private collection, not on view.
The Sieve Portrait of Elizabeth I, Quentin Metsys II, c. 1583, oil on canvas. Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena, Italy.
CHAPTER 5: NICHOLAS HILLIARD: THE QUEEN’S PAINTER
Portrait of Henry VIII, Lucas Horenbout, 1525/6. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. PD.19-1949.
Silver gilt standing bowl, Richard Hilliard. Collection of Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Miniature portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, Nicholas Hilliard, 1572, watercolour on vellum. National Portrait Gallery, London. NPG108.
Self-portrait at age 30, Nicholas Hilliard, miniature, 1577, watercolour on vellum. Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Accession no.: P155-1910.
Portrait of Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, Nicholas Hilliard, 1578, watercolour on vellum. National Portrait Gallery, London. NPG 6761.
Self-portrait, Isaac Oliver, 1590, watercolour on vellum. Royal Collection Trust, London. RCIN 420034.
Portrait of Elizabeth I, Isaac Oliver, 1590/2, watercolour on vellum. Victoria & Albert Museum, London. P.8-1940.
Miniature Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, Nicholas Hilliard, 1595–1600, watercolour on vellum. Royal Collection Trust, London. RCIN 421029.
The Pelican Portrait, Nicholas Hilliard, c. 1573/5, oil on panel. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Accession no: WAG 2994.
The Phoenix Portrait, Nicholas Hilliard, c. 1575, oil on panel. Tate Britain, on view at National Portrait Gallery, London. NPG 190.
Young Man among Roses, Nicholas Hilliard, c. 1587, watercolour on vellum. Victoria & Albert Museum, London. P.163-1910.
Unknown Man Clasping a Hand from a Cloud, Nicholas Hilliard, 1588, watercolour on vellum. Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Accession no.: P.21-1942.
Portrait of a Lady, perhaps Penelope, Lady Rich, Nicholas Hilliard, c. 1589, watercolour on vellum. Royal Collection Trust, London. RCIN 420020,
CHAPTER 6: SECRETS AND CODES: MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS
The Rainbow Portrait, Isaac Oliver (?) c.1600, oil on canvas. Hatfield House, Hertfordshire.
Portrait of Sir Francis Walsingham, attributed to John de Critz the Elder, c. 1589, oil on panel. National Portrait Gallery, London. NPG 1807.
Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, in Captivity, after Nicholas Hilliard, inscribed 1578, oil on panel. National Portrait Gallery, London. NPG 429
Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, ‘en deuil blanc’, François Clouet, c. 1560/1, oil on panel. Royal Collection Trust, London. RCIN 403429.
CHAPTER 7: ELIZABETHAN ARTS: THE GOLDEN AGE
Portrait of William Shakespeare (The Chandos Portrait), attributed to John Taylor, 1610, oil on canvas. National Portrait Gallery. London, NPG1.
The Stratford Memorial bust. Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Portrait of Philip Sidney, unknown artist, c. 1576, oil on panel. National Portrait Gallery, London. NPG 5732.
Bacton Altar Cloth, 16th-century fabric. On loan to Historic Royal Palaces, Hampton Court Palace, London.
Portrait of Elizabeth I, attributed to Nicholas Hilliard, 1598/99, oil on canvas. Collection of the National Trust, Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire. NT 1129128.
The Tichbourne Spoons, William Cawdell, 1592, cast silver. Hampshire Cultural Trust, Winchester. Object no.: HMCMS.HCMS1975.175.
Wine cup with cover, Affabel Partridge, c. 1565, silver gilt. Metropolitan Museum, New York. Accession no.: 68.141125a,b.
Nautilus cup, Affabel Partridge, 1557/8, shell, silver gilt. Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Accession no.: M.117-1984.
CHAPTER 8: GOLD AND GLORY: EXPLORATION AND ARMADA
Portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh, unknown British Artist, 1588, oil on panel. National Portrait Gallery, London. NPG 7.
The Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I, unknown artist (formerly attributed to George Gower), c. 1590, oil on panel. Royal Museums, Greenwich. Ref: ZBA7719.
Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, unknown English artist, c. 1588, oil on panel. National Portrait Gallery, London. NPG541.
Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, unknown artist, c. 1588, oil on panel, Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire.
CHAPTER 9: DRESS, DAZZLE AND DISPLAY; MASK OF YOUTH
The Ditchley Portrait, Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, c. 1592, oil on canvas. National Portrait Gallery, London. NPG 2561.
Portrait of Henry VIII, Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1537, oil on panel. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Inv. no.: 191 (1939.39).
Elizabeth I effigy, (remade by John Colt in 1760), 1603, wax. Westminster Abbey, London. Images can be viewed on:
https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/royals/elizabeth-i.
Knitted silk stockings of Elizabeth I. Hatfield House, Great North Road, Hatfield, Hertfordshire.
Lady and the Unicorn Tapestries, 1500. Musée de Cluny, Paris. Inventory no.: 10831 -10836.
The Three Brothers Jewel depicted in the Portrait of Elizabeth I (The Ermine Portrait), attributed to Nicholas Hilliard, 1585. Hatfield House, Hertfordshire.
CHAPTER 10: FINAL YEARS: DEATH AND LEGACY
Elizabeth in procession to Blackfriars in 1600/1, Marcus Gheeraerts or Robert Peake the Elder (?), c. 1600/01. Collection of Colonel Wingfield-Digby, Sherbourne Castle, Dorset.
Queen Elizabeth I in Old Age, unknown British artist, c.1610, oil on panel. Private collection, Corsham Court, Wiltshire.