#GeorgeGower
#OTD
30th August 1596
George Gower, Sergeant Painter to Queen Elizabeth I died in London.
His most famous work is the Armada Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I in 1588.

#GeorgeGower #Painter #Artist #SergeantPainter #QueenElizabethI #TheArmadaPortrait #Tudors #History
August 30, 2026 at 4:05 AM
September 6, 2025 at 1:28 AM
#OTD
30th August 1596
George Gower, Sergeant Painter to Queen Elizabeth I died in London.
His most famous work is the Armada Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I in 1588.

#GeorgeGower #Painter #Artist #SergeantPainter #QueenElizabethI #TheArmadaPortrait #Tudors #History
August 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Attributed to #GeorgeGower (ca.1540-96)
Portrait of #ElizabethKnollys (1549-ca.1605), Lady Leighton, who was #BornOnThisDay
1577
Montacute House
#Leighton #ElizabethLeighton #Knollys #Tudor
June 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
"The eyes are the window to the soul" - an old saying but Gower gives us armor instead. Every ring, pearl and gold chain in George Gower's Portrait of a Lady is a wall built brick by brick, hiding whoever she was.

#art #GeorgeGower #ElizabethanArt #TudorPortrait #meisterdrucke
August 31, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Attributed to #GeorgeGower (1540–1596)
Portrait of #LetticeKnollys (1543-1634), Countess of Essex and Countess of Leicester, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1585
Longleat, Collection of the Marquess of Bath
#Knollys #Devereux #Dudley #Blount #Tudor
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Attributed to #GeorgeGower (1540–1596)
Portrait of Lady #ArbellaStuart (1575-1615)
#ArabellaStuart #Stuart #Stewart
September 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM