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Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
(c. 1565-1570)
- Medium
- oil on wood panel
- Measurements
- 45.3 × 33.4 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- England
- Accession Number
- 3017-4
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1953
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- 17th Century & Flemish Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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Robert Dudley (c. 1532/33–1588) was the favourite of Queen Elizabeth I of England, and many historians have speculated that he was her lover. Through Elizabeth’s favour, Dudley became a prominent figure at court, and she made him Earl of Leicester in 1564. Numerous portraits of Dudley attest to his prominence in the Elizabethan period and his role as a patron of the arts. This portrait, once attributed to the Italian artist Federico Zuccaro, is one of many extant images apparently based on the fine half-length portrait of Dudley in the Rothschild Collection in England.
- Subjects (general)
- Another Work Portraits
- Subjects (specific)
- busts (general, figures) doublets earls men (male humans) moustaches nobles (aristocrats) ruffs three-quarter views
- Movements
- Elizabethan