Collector's Journal — National Portrait Gallery
Sir Walter Raleigh: How an Elizabethan Icon Was Reimagined in Georgian Britain
18th Century Art Art Research British Portraiture Collectors Journal Elizabeth I Elizabethan England Elizabethan Portraiture English School Georgian Art Georgian Britain Historical Portraits Lennard Portrait National Portrait Gallery Old Master Portraits Provenance Research Roanoke Sir Walter Raleigh Tower of London Virginia Walter Raleigh Woolley & Wallis
An intimate eighteenth-century portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh reveals how the image of one of Elizabethan England’s most celebrated figures survived through paintings, engravings and Georgian fascination with Britain’s national past.
