The “Hampden” portrait of Elizabeth I of England, an early full-length portrait of the young queen in a red satin gownThe “Hampden” portrait, by Steven van der Meulen, ca. 1563. This is the earliest full-length portrait of the queen, made before the emergence of symbolic portraits representing the iconography of the “Virgin Queen”.

The “Hampden” portrait of Elizabeth I of England, an early full-length portrait of the young queen in a red satin gown
The “Hampden” portrait, by Steven van der Meulen, ca. 1563. This is the earliest full-length portrait of the queen, made before the emergence of symbolic portraits representing the iconography of the “Virgin Queen”.

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