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Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger: Queen Elizabeth I ('The Ditchley portrait')  wikidata:Q28042948 reasonator:Q28042948
Artist
Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger  (1561–1636)  wikidata:Q13583490
 
Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
Alternative names
Marcus Garrard, Marcus Garret (II), Marcus Geeraerts , Marcus Geeraerts (II), Marcus Gerard (II), Marcus Geerarts
Description Flemish-English painter
Date of birth/death 1561 or 1562
date QS:P,+1561-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1561-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1562-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
(?)
19 January 1636 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Bruges Edit this at Wikidata London Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
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artist QS:P170,Q13583490
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Queen Elizabeth I ('The Ditchley portrait')
title QS:P1476,en:"Queen Elizabeth I ('The Ditchley portrait')"
label QS:Len,"Queen Elizabeth I ('The Ditchley portrait')"
label QS:Les,"Reina Isabel I ('El retrato Ditchley')"
label QS:Lfr,"La reine Élisabeth ('Le portrait Ditchley')"
label QS:Lde,"Königin Elisabeth I. ('Das Ditchley Porträt')"
label QS:Lnl,"Koningin Elizabeth I ('Het Ditchley portret')"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Queen Elizabeth I standing on a map of England.
Depicted people Elizabeth I of England Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa 1592
date QS:P571,+1592-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 95 in (241.3 cm); width: 60 in (152.4 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,95U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,60U218593
institution QS:P195,Q238587
Current location
room 2
Accession number
NPG 2561
Exhibition history
Credit line bequest of Harold Lee-Dillon, 17th Viscount Dillon, 1932
Inscriptions

Motto left:

Da ..c..xpectat
[She gives and does not expect]

Motto right:

Potest nec ulciscitur
[She can but does not take revenge]

Motto bottom right:

Reddendo .ge(?)
[In giving back she increases(?)]

Text right:

The prince of light, the Sonne by whom thin(gs)

Of heaven the glorie, and of earthe the (grace?)
Hath no such glorie as (...) grace to go (...)
Where Correspondencie May have no plac(e)

Thunder the Image of that power dev(ine)
Which all to nothinge with a word c(...)
Is to the earthe when it doth ayre r(...)
Of power the Scepter, not of wr(...)

This ile of such both grace (...) power
The boundless ocean (...) em(...)
P(...) p(rince?) (...) the (...)ll (...)
Rivers of thankes retourne for Springes (...)

Rivers of thankes still to that oc(ean) (...)

Where grace is grace above, po(wer)
Notes This set of images was gathered by User:Dcoetzee from the National Portrait Gallery, London website using a special tool. All images in this batch have a known author, but have manually examined for strong evidence that the author was dead before 1939, such as approximate death dates, birth dates, floruit dates, and publication dates.
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