Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
1850
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
About the artist
1850
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester is a 1850 ink by Unknown 19th Century, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This is a black-and-white portrait of a bearded man in a fur-lined robe and a fancy hat with feathers. His face is serious, with a thick beard and deep-set eyes. The background is just a plain oval frame with some decorative lines and text around it. The text around the portrait says he was a governor from 1586 to 1588, but the style of this image looks old-fashioned even for that time. The artist who made this wasn’t famous, and they used a technique that relies on shading with lines. Look up engraving to see how this kind of detailed shading works.
