Download Queen Elizabeth 1 Portraits Explained Pictures. Mary queen of scots had been recently executed as well as many conspiracies and rebellions being stopped. Katherine coombes explains how the 'virgin queen' used portrait miniatures to good effect.
Queen elizabeth was the first british monarch to celebrate her diamond wedding anniversary.
The portraiture of elizabeth i illustrates the evolution of english royal portraits in the early modern period from the representations of simple likenesses to the later complex imagery used to convey the. Her father, king henry viii, had parliament annul his marriage to elizabeth's upon assuming the throne, queen elizabeth i restored england to protestantism. Portraits of queen elizabeth i: She came to be known as the virgin queen, the commanding female monarch who defeated an armada and launched britain on its imperial adventures.
