A genuine and realistic c.1595 portrait of queen Elizabeth I by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (c.1561/62–1636)., Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, circa 1595

Object Type: painting. Date: circa 1595. Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: This photographic image was taken when the portrait was on display at the Folgers Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC. The portrait was privately owned by the 'Elizabethan Gardens of North Carolina' since the 1950s until it was sold by the Elizabethan Gardens institute to a London dealer at Sotheby's in late 2015. It now resides in the UK.[4]. Elizabeth I portrait, Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger c.1595