A rare portrait of Elizabeth the 1st displaying her with facial wrinkles is presently being exhibited at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC. The painting ( now owned by the Elizabethan Gardens in North Carolina's outer banks ) is having it's first public showing after conservation and authentication in 2011-2012. This painting is a rare exception in not covering up the queens flaws. A 1563 draft of Royal Proclamation attempted to regulate the production and circulation of the Queen's portraits , and a 1596 order to the Privy Council commanded public officers : " to aid the the Queen's Sergeant Painter in seeking out unseemly portraits which were to her 'great offence' and therefore to be defaced and no more portraits to be produced except as to be approved by ( the) Sergeant Painter . This portrait however , by the studio of Gheeraerts in the early mid 1590s seems to have slipped through the net. The portrait was purchased in the fifties by the Elizabethan Gardens in Manteo , North Carolina from a New York art gallery for $3000 to hang in the gatehouse of the gardens . It was not until 2007 that the Gardens staff took steps to investigate its origins.
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Tuesday 16 July 2013
' Portrait of Elizabeth 1st ' (1533-1603) Studio of Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (1561-1636) Oil on panel , circa 1595. Elizabethan Gardens , North Carolina . Presently exhibited at the Folger Shakespeare Library , Washington DC,
A rare portrait of Elizabeth the 1st displaying her with facial wrinkles is presently being exhibited at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC. The painting ( now owned by the Elizabethan Gardens in North Carolina's outer banks ) is having it's first public showing after conservation and authentication in 2011-2012. This painting is a rare exception in not covering up the queens flaws. A 1563 draft of Royal Proclamation attempted to regulate the production and circulation of the Queen's portraits , and a 1596 order to the Privy Council commanded public officers : " to aid the the Queen's Sergeant Painter in seeking out unseemly portraits which were to her 'great offence' and therefore to be defaced and no more portraits to be produced except as to be approved by ( the) Sergeant Painter . This portrait however , by the studio of Gheeraerts in the early mid 1590s seems to have slipped through the net. The portrait was purchased in the fifties by the Elizabethan Gardens in Manteo , North Carolina from a New York art gallery for $3000 to hang in the gatehouse of the gardens . It was not until 2007 that the Gardens staff took steps to investigate its origins.
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