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Purchased with assistance from the Friends of the Tate Gallery, The Art Fund and the Pilgrim Trust 1980
This is one of Tate's best-known works. It came from Ditchley in Oxfordshire, a family seat of Sir Henry Lee, who was spin-doctor to Elizabeth I and related to the sitter, Thomas Lee. Gheeraerts became the most fashionable portrait-painter at the late-Elizabethan Court.
