The artist behind the works may have used Elizabeth’s likeness as a template in other royal portraits to visually emphasize her resemblance to previous monarchs and reinforce her status as the ...

New research suggests that mother and daughter's likenesses were blurred to reinforce Elizabeth I's claim to the throne. A portrait of Anne Boleyn from the late 16th century (c.1500-1536) by an ...

Elizabeth I was the last great ruler of the Tudor dynasty and, much like her forebears, she shaped her public image through portraiture. This summer, a suite of rarely seen paintings that reveal the ...