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| Keywords: Illuminated membrane, with portrait of Elizabeth, 1584.jpg George Gower This portrait on the Easter Roll of 1584 is of outstanding importance for with it artistic experiment came to an end The year 1584 is a significant date It was the year in which the monopoly of royal portraiture was drafted in favour of Gower and Hilliard Though in this monopoly the province of limning was assigned to Hilliard it must be admitted that the treatment of the limning on the Plea Rolls of 1584 suggest Gower's manner rather than Hilliard's And in fact a comparison of the Queen's portrait with the painting of Lady Kytson by Gower shows undoubted similarities in the rather dry and linear conception of the face and the pattern of the material Reference Erna Auerbach Tudor Artists A Study of Painters in the Royal Service and of Portraiture on Illuminated Documents from the Accession of Henry VIII to the Death of Elizabeth I London Athlone Press 1954 pp 129 “30 David Loades Elizabeth I The Golden Reign of Gloriana London National Archives 2003 ISBN 1903365430 Uploaded by qp10qp 1584 PD-old-100 PD-old-100 Elizabeth I of England in manuscripts 16th-century illuminated manuscripts Arabesque Initials | ||||
