After Robert Peake the Elder (British, ca. 1551-1619), Princess Elizabeth, Later Queen of Bohemia

Oil on canvas, unsigned, early 20th century, inscribed "Elizabeth Queen of England" at lower right, presented in a period style frame.

Stretcher size 61 3/4 x 31 in.; Frame dimensions 68 3/4 x 39 in.

Lloyd-Paxton, Dallas, Texas
Acquired from the above by the consignor's mother in 1976

This painting is an almost exact copy of a portrait by Robert Peake in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Dated around 1606, it depicts Elizabeth Stuart, the sister of Prince Henry and the future Charles I, at approximately ten years of age.

The sitter’s identity was confirmed through the distinctive jewelry she wears. Initially thought to represent the young Queen Elizabeth I, the portrait was reattributed in the early 1960s by Roy Strong, the English art historian and former director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, who proposed that Peake was the artist and identified the sitter as Princess Elizabeth. Strong based this identification on the jeweled chain worn across her chest, which corresponds closely to a chain depicted in another Peake portrait at the National Portrait Gallery, London, as well as in a portrait miniature by Nicholas Hilliard at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Small patch to verso with associated retouch visible under UV light.