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| A picture of Queen Elizabeth receiving foreign ambassadors, by Elizabeth's female court painter Leevina Teerlinc. In my opinion, Teerlinc has an Edward Gorey like style! The practice of painting the walls in the court rooms is sumptuously brought to life in the Helen Mirren HBO miniseries Elizabeth I. |
"High above all a cloth of State was spred,
And a rich throne, as bright as sunny day,
On whiche sate most brave embellished
With royall robes and gorgeous array,
A mayden queene, that shone as Titans ray,
In glistring gold, and peerelesse pretious stones
Yet her bright blazing beautie did assay
To dim the brightnesse of her glorius throne,
As envying her selfe, that too exceeding shone."
