Peake, Robert (the elder) - Portrait of Elizabeth of Bohemia - art postcard

Art Postcard
• Work of art title:  Portrait of Elizabeth the Elder, 1603
• Artist (if known):  Robert Peake the Elder
• Media or other details:  painting
• Publisher / Gallery: National Art Collections Fund (Acquired by the National Maritime Museum, 1990)
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): na
• Size: modern
• Notes & condition details:

NOTES:

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Stock No.: A289

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Robert Peake the Elder (c. 1551�1619) was an English painter active in the later part of Elizabeth I's reign and for most of the reign of James I. In 1604, he was appointed picture maker to the heir to the throne, Prince Henry; and in 1607, serjeant-painter to King James I � a post he shared with John De Critz.^[1] Peake is often called ""the elder"", to distinguish him from his son, the painter and print seller William Peake (c. 1580�1639) and from his grandson, Sir Robert Peake (c. 1605�67), who followed his father into the family print-selling business.^[2]

Peake was the only English-born painter of a group of four artists whose workshops were closely connected. The others were De Critz, Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, and the miniature painter Isaac Oliver. Between 1590 and about 1625, they specialised in brilliantly coloured, full-length ""costume pieces"" that are unique to England at this time.^[3] It is not always possible to attribute authorship between Peake, De Critz, Gheeraerts and their assistants with certainty.

Peake was born to a Lincolnshire family in about 1551.^[5] He began his training on 30 April 1565 under Laurence Woodham,^[6] who lived at the sign of ""The Key"" in Goldsmith�s Row, Westcheap.^[7] He was apprenticed, three years after the miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard, to the Goldsmiths� Company in London.^[8] He became a freeman of the company on 20 May 1576. His son William later followed in his father's footsteps as a freeman of the Goldsmiths' Company and a portrait painter.^[9] Peake�s training would have been similar to that of John de Critz and Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, who may have been pupils of the Flemish artist Lucas de Heere.^[10]

Peake is first heard of professionally in 1576 in the pay of the Office of the Revels, the department that oversaw court festivities for Elizabeth I. When Peake began practising as a portrait painter is uncertain.^[11] According to art historian Roy Strong, he was ""well established"" in London by the late 1580s, with a ""fashionable clientele"".^[12] Payments made to him for portraits are recorded in the Rutland accounts at Belvoir in the 1590s.^[13] A signed portrait from 1593, known as the ""Military Commander"", shows Peake�s early style. Other portraits have been grouped with it on the basis of similar lettering.^[10] Its three-quarter-length portrait format is typical of the time.

type=printed postcards

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

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