Queen Catherine, a Bragança in seventeenth-century London

Abstract

Catarina de Bragança, Queen of England and Queen Regent of Portugal provides an insightful case-study to address how early modern Iberian women made recourse to visual culture to articulate a political identity for themselves. Her position was accentuated by her being a filha da Guerra/‘daughter of the war’ as she was referred to in her native Portugal. This chapter addresses a key concern: the issue of Catarina's specific political identity. Aside from written evidence a key focus of is portraits, in a range of media, engraving, oil and fresco, which are examined as paradigmatic images, the analysis of which permits a searching enquiry into the aforementioned questions. Nonetheless, for the purpose of this paper it is works by Dirck Stoop. The tragedy of his father's death was a guiding force in the king's actions and it explains why he never ceded to populist demands. Summing up the 30-year period that she lived in England, it is clear that the most difficult periods were firstly the 1660s, and then from the end of the 1670s to the early 1680s.

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