Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
British (English) School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1500 - 1599
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
889 x 711 mm (35 x 28 in)
Order this imageCollection
Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd
NT 1421757
Summary
Oil painting on canvas/panel, Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603), British (English) School, 16th century. A half-length portrait, left, facing forward, ermine on left arm. Variant of the 'Ermine' portrait (1585) at Hatfield. Formerly called 'Zucchero (Old copy)'.
Provenance
Purchased at Lord Charles Townshend's sale, Robins, 4 June 1819 by George Hay Dawkins-Pennant (1764 - 1840); thence by descent to Hugh, 4th Baron Penrhyn (1894 – 1949), who left Penryhn and its estates to his niece, Lady Janet Marcia Rose Pelham (1923 - 1997), who with her husband John Charles Harper, thereupon assumed the name of Douglas Pennant, and in 1951 made over the castle and part of its contents in lieu of death-duties to HM Treasury (from the estate of Hugh Napier Douglas Pennant, 4th Baron Penrhyn of Llangedai (1894 – 1949), which transferred them to the National Trust for display at Penrhyn Castle, 1961.
Credit line
Penrhyn Castle, The Douglas Pennant Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, artist
References
Steegman 1957 John Steegman, A Survey of Portraits in Welsh Houses, Vol.I: North Wales, Cardiff, 1957, no. 18