THE ARTS SOCIETY WOLVERHAMPTON

MONDAY 10 JUNE 2019
"The Queen's Pikture", Portraits of Queen Elizabeth 1

This lecture examines the portraiture of 'Good Queen Bess' and traces the development of an English icon from tentative beginnings to the triumph of royal propaganda. As a young girl, Elizabeth was a minor cog in the machinery of the Tudor dynasty, destined to move from docile and obedient daughter to modest and submissive wife. As queen, Elizabeth and her ministers struggled to find a suitable visual image but with passing years her image grew in confidence until the realm of England became too small a canvas and Elizabeth triumphed as Queen, Empress and Goddess.

Lecturer: Gillion White (Gillion specialises in the visual arts of late Medieval and sixteenth-century England. She formerly worked for the National Trust as Curator and Collections Manager at Hardwick Hall. She now teaches part-time ot Leicester University, predominantly in The Centre for the Study of the Country House, and is involved with the Continuing Education Deportment at Oxford university, as well as freelance lecturing)

From an original Pen & Wash by Ed Isaacs