Robert Peake The Elder - Gallery

Gallery

  • Portrait of Anne Knollys, 1582. Attributed to Robert Peake by the Berger Collection, Denver Art Museum

  • Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby) Robert Peake v.2.jpg

    Unknown Gentleman, c. 1585–90. Inscribed with the Lumley cartellino, centre left

  • Portrait of a Man (Unknown Military Commander, Aged 60), 1593. Paul Mellon Center for British Art, Yale

  • Frances Walsingham, Countess of Essex, and her son Robert, later 3rd Earl of Essex, 1594

  • Portrait of a Woman, 1600. Paul Mellon Center for British Art, Yale

  • The first known portrait of Princess Elizabeth, 1603—possibly a companion piece to Peake's double portrait of the same year

  • After Prince Henry's death in 1612, Peake moved on to the household of his brother, the future Charles I of England, portrayed here in the robes of the Order of the Garter, c. 1611–12.

  • Lady Anne Pope, sister-in-law of Elizabeth Pope, 1615. Her dress is patterned with carnations, roses and strawberries; the cherries on the tree symbolise virtue.

  • Elizabeth Poulett, 1616. The sitter wears a jewelled and feathered caul, a type of indoor headdress. The spot on her face is a fashionable patch of velvet or silk, glued to her skin.

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