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Queen Elizabeth I ('The Ditchley portrait') NPG 2561

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger

Known as the 'Ditchley Portrait', this painting was produced for Sir Henry Lee who had been the Queen's Champion from 1559-90. It probably commemorates an elaborate symbolic entertainment which Lee organised for the Queen in September 1592, and which may have been held in the grounds of Lee's house at Ditchley, near Oxford, or at the nearby palace at Woodstock.. After his retirement in 1590 Lee lived at Ditchley with his mistress Anne Vavasour. The entertainment marked the Queen's forgiveness of Lee for becoming... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.