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Dazzling 12K gold plated brooch richly embellished with glass stones and freshwater pearls. It is inspired by a portrait of EllenMaurice painted in 1597 by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (Flemish, 1561-1635/36). Wear this bold pin and add a royal touch to your look.
Copying the portraits of Queen Elizabeth I, EllenMaurice, an heiress who claimed direct descent from the ancient Princes of Wales, is depicted in her portrait in extravagant attire. Marcus Gheeraerts was a prominent member of an artistic Anglo-Flemish family that greatly influenced early modern English painting.
12K gold plating
Glass stones
Cultured freshwater pearls
7.6 x 5.08 cm.
Clean with a damp cloth and dry with a soft, clean cloth.
The House of Tudor or Tudor dynasty was a royal house of Welsh origin, descended from Rhys ap Tewdwr, the last "King of the Britons", who ruled the Kingdom of England and its possessions, including their ancestral Wales and the Lords Realm of Ireland, later Kingdom of Ireland, from 1485 to 1603.