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Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
(c. 1565-1570)
Medium
oil on wood panel
Measurements
45.3 × 33.4 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1953
Gallery location
17th Century & Flemish Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
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.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
England
Accession Number
3017-4
Department
International Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Dame Carol Colburn-Grigor CBE through Metal Manufactures Limited
Subjects (general)
Another Work Portraits
Subjects (specific)
busts (general, figures) doublets earls men (male humans) moustaches nobles (aristocrats) ruffs three-quarter views
Movements
Elizabethan