https://collections.ecu.edu/files/original/25/819/Spenser_portrait.jpeg bd6c115be6c410c386f6bd5b7ca1e747 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Object Descriptions from <em>Centering Spenser</em> Subject The topic of the resource Objects Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <em>Centering Spenser,&nbsp;</em>Dr. Thomas Herron, ECU Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <strong>Portrait of Spenser</strong> Subject The topic of the resource Tower House Parlor Description An account of the resource <p>This portrait of a middle-aged man is modeled loosely on that painted by Benjamin Wilson in 1770, long after Spenser’s death, which was based on an engraving made in 1727 by George Vertue of a supposed portrait of Edmund Spenser in the collection of John Guise. The sitter’s dress would suit Spenser’s relatively modest means. Spenser was described in his time as having short-cut hair.</p> <p>No authoritative likeness of Spenser is known to exist. This portrait and the one next to it, a hypothetical one of Spenser’s second wife, Elizabeth Boyle, are presented as if they formed a pair and were commissioned for their wedding day in 1594.</p> <p>Further description of the recreated portrait (by Joyce Joines Newman) can be found <a href="http://core.ecu.edu/umc/Munster/PDF/invented_portrait_ES.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dr. Thomas Herron, ECU Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Bibliography: Andrew Hadfield, Edmund Spenser: A Life (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012): 413-8. Tarnya Cooper and Andrew Hadfield, “Edmund Spenser and Eizabethan Portraiture.“ Renaissance Studies 27.3 (June 2013), 18-21.