English School, circa 1560s
Elizabeth I of England (1533 – 1603), Painted circa 1560s
Oil on panel
17 ¾ x 13 ½ in. (45.2 x 34.4 cm.)
Copyright: The Weiss Gallery
‘Are you travelling to the temple of Eliza?’‘Even to her temple are my feeble limbs travelling. Some call her Pandora: some Gloriana: some Cynthia: some Belphoebe: some Astraea: all by several names to express several loves: Yet all those names make but one celestial body, as all those loves meet to create but one soul.’ Thomas Dekker, Old Fortunatus (1599)