Focus on Armada Portrait and discuss the Versions.
There are three surviving versions of the portrait, in addition to several derivative portraits:The version at Woburn Abbey
The version in the National Portrait Gallery, London, which has been cut down at both sides leaving just a portrait of the queen.
The version owned by the Tyrwhitt-Drake family, which may have been commissioned by Sir Francis Drake, was first recorded at Shardeloes in Buckinghamshire in 1775. Scholars agree that this version is by a different hand, noting distinctive techniques and approaches to the modelling of the queen's features. This version was heavily overpainted in the later 17th century, which complicates attribution and may account for several differences in details of the costume. The Drake version was purchased for the nation for £10.3 million in July 2016 following an Art Fund appeal. The work is hung in the national collection of Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG), in the Queen's House, a 17th-century royal residence built on the site of the original Greenwich Palace, Elizabeth I's birthplace.The first two portraits were formerly attributed to Elizabeth's Serjeant Painter George Gower, but curators at the National Portrait Gallery now believe that all three versions were created in separate workshops, and assign the attributions to "an unknown English artist".
Woburn Abbey Elizabeth I George Gower Shardeloes Queen's House Francis Drake National Portrait Gallery, London Greenwich Palace Buckinghamshire Serjeant Painter Royal Museums Greenwich