Van der Doort c.1639

Unknown hand, said to be done for Elizabeth I before she came to the crown

Certain lady, said to be Queen Elizabeth before she came to the crown, in her hair, gold-boned lace little ruff, black habit lined with fur, golden tissue sleeves, one hand over the other

Walpole Society reference (1960): 
WS 113, № 42
Measurements (Van der Doort): 
2 1/8in (5.4 cm)
Light: 
light from the left
Frame: 
without a crystal in a white ivory box
Notes: 
3 pictures of Queen Elizabeth
Location: 
Room description extended: 
4th Book containing all your Majesty's well limned pieces, kept at the moment in cupboards in the newly erected Cabinet Room, Whitehall
Original Manuscript page number: 
Windsor MS., f. 63
Charles II inventory c1666: 
Whitehall, no 450
Identification certainty: 
Identified