Excerpt from A Descriptive, and Classified Catalogue of Portraits of Queen Elizabeth<br><br>Richard lyne was a painter and engraver, who worked in the ser vice of Archbishop Parker, and as the Queen frequently visited the latter she may possibly have sat to Lyne.<br><br>Cornelius ketel, a Dutch artist, resided in this country from 1573 to 1581, and it is on record that when the Queen visited the Duchess of Somerset at Hanworth, in 1578, the Earl of Hertford, the Duchess's son, employed Ketel to paint Her Majesty's portrait, but the picture cannot be identified.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.