Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
And there, quite close to him, was Elizabeth among her ladies, in a dressing gown, unpainted, without her wig, her gray hair hanging in wisps about her face, and her eyes starting from her head.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1928
Dimensions:
30 × 40 in. (76.2 × 101.6 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1822
Research Number: NCW: 1822
InscribedUpper right: N. C. WYETH (underlined); on reverse of frame, a partial label in NCW's hand: The EARL of ESSEX (underlined) / and QUEEN ELIZABETH (underlined) / (further inscription has faded and is almost illegible, but archival records suggest text is: "The Earl of Essex rushing into the private chambers of Queen Elizabeth to report on his unsuccessful campaign in Ireland."
ProvenanceTitus C. Geesey, Wilmington, DE, to 1964; gift to the Wilmington Institute Library, to 2011; (Samuel T. Freeman & Co., Philadelphia, PA, June 19, 2011, sale no. 1403, lot no. 80);
Exhibition Historypossibly Wilmington, DE, 1929, no. 15, as "Elizabeth of England"
References
NCW to James Boyd, Jan. 5, 1928, Southern Historical Collection, Library of the University of North Carolina; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr. N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972), p. 263; Barbara Hodgdon, The Shakespeare Trade: Performances and Appropriations (Philadelphia: University of Penn Press, 1998), pps. 125-130, illus. b/w p. 129; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.1079, p. 508
Curatorial RemarksIn December 1929, Wyeth exhibited "Elizabeth of England" at the annual exhibition of the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, catalogue number 15. It is not clear whether the reference is to this painting, or NCW 1819.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:Digital photography directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 5/30/2006