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Elizabeth of York (1465-1503) c.1470-98
Oil on panel | 38.7 x 27.8 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 403447
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British School, 16th century
Elizabeth of York (1465-1503) c.1470-98
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This is an early portrait type of Elizabeth of York. Accurately dating this painting is made difficult by the layers of later overpaint, although it probably dates to the mid to late sixteenth century and therefore could be counted among the earliest Royal Portraits in the Royal Collection.
The wife of Henry VII is shown in head and shoulders view, holding a white rose in her hands and wearing a ‘gable-hood’. It is possibly a contemporary image taken from the life. In 1502 a Flemish artist, Maynard Waynwyck, was commissioned to paint individual portraits of Henry VII, Elizabeth of York, Princess Margaret and Prince Henry to be sent to Scotland on the occasion of Margaret’s betrothal to James IV. It is possible that this is a variant of this, now lost, portrait type.
The painting appears in Pyne's illustrated 'Royal Residences' of 1819, hanging in The Old Drawing Room at Kensington Palace (see RCIN 922153).Provenance
First recorded at Whitehall Palace in the 1542 (no 706); in the Privy Gallery at Whitehall in 1639 (no 34); sold to De la Mare on 28 June 1650 from St James's as part of a group of 31 'pictures of Kings and Princes' (no 218); recovered at the Restoration and listed in the King's Privy Gallery at Whitehall in 1666 (no 130)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on panel
Measurements
38.7 x 27.8 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
48.0 x 37.2 x 4.5 cm (frame, external)
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