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Summary

Artist
Title The Hampden Portrait
Description
Depicted person: Elizabeth I of England
Date circa 1563
Medium oil on canvas, transfered from panel
Dimensions Height: 196 cm (77.2 in). Width: 140 cm (55.1 in).
Private collection
not on view
Object history

circa 1563: commissioned by Elizabeth I
between 1563 and 1593: ceded to Griffith Hampden by Elizabeth I
before 1597: inherited by William Hampden from Griffith Hampden
1597: inherited by John Hampden from William Hampden
between 1674 and 1728: inherited by Richard Hampden
1728: inherited by John Hampden from Richard Hampden
inherited by Richard Trevor from John Hampden
inherited by Hobart family from Richard Trevor

22 November 2007: auctioned at Sotheby's, London. for GBP 2,596,000 and sold to Philip Mould Fine Paintings, London.
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References Reuters news story "Sir Roy Strong, a leading authority on portraits of Elizabeth I, who has written about the painting for Sotheby's in-house magazine, Preview, believed it to be an important early portrait, undertaken at a time when her image was being tightly controlled. 'This is a portrait dating from the mid to late 1560s, one of a group produced in response to a crisis over the production of the royal image, one which was reflected in the words of a draft proclamation dated 1563,' he said."
Source/Photographer Scanned in the US from Sotheby's Catalogue #L07123, Important British Paintings 1500-1850 22 November 2007
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