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An exquisite miniature from a time of extraordinary success, with wealth, land and power all bestowed on him by his Queen.
An exquisite miniature from a time of extraordinary success, with wealth, land and power all bestowed on him by his Queen.
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John White, sent by Ralegh to sketch the landscapes and indigenous people of the New World, returned with a powerful record of the people of Roanoke or ‘Virginia’.
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The moon, the pearls, the colours, the motto: all show Ralegh’s loyalty to his Queen in 1588.
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A sketch of the ageing Queen Elizabeth I in 1592.
Some ten years later, the ‘mask of youth’ is in place for the now ageless Queen.
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A portrait of quiet ambition: Ralegh with his son, Wat, in 1602.
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James I soon after his accession to the English throne. Already hostile to Sir Walter while still King of Scotland, James would grow to hate the man he called ‘Rawly’.
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Henry, James’s son, who as a teenage Prince of Wales established a rival and very different court to his father, full of ‘gold, the learned and the militant’.
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Ralegh’s ‘dear Bess’, defiant even as her husband ‘withered’ in the Tower.