The "Hampden" portrait of Elizabeth I of England, an early full-length portrait of the young queen in a red satin gown. Sold at Sotheby's, London, for £2.6 million in November 2007. Preview, believed it to be an important early portrait, undertaken at a time when her image was being tightly controlled. 'This is a portrait dating from the mid to late 1560s, one of a group produced in response to a crisis over the production of the royal image