Category:Queen Eleanor (Frederick Sandys, 1858)

Frederick Sandys  (1829–1904)
	Alternative names	Antonio Frederic Augustus Sands, Frederick Sandys
	Description	British painter, illustrator and drawer
	Date of birth/death	1 May 1829	25 June 1904
	Location of birth/death	Norwich	London
	Work period	Victorian era
	Work location	England
	Authority file	: Q1470796 VIAF: 3387346 ISNI: 0000000083516280 ULAN: 500009794 LCCN: n84017993 NLA: 35474869 Open Library: OL1464635A Oxford Dict.: 35937 GND: 123722276 SUDOC: 068451814 BNF: 15628410n CiNii: DA11016749 RKD: 69618 Koninklijke: 241186749 WorldCat

Queen Eleanor, 1858, oil on canvas, 40.6 x 30.5 cm
National Museum Wales, NMW A 185

The prominent "Celtic" motifs seen in the painting are based on the illuminated initials from the 8th-century Blickling Psalter.
Sandys's tracing of three decorative elements from the Blickling Psalter is preserved in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 1906P1035. Sandys probably made it in 1858, while working on a portrait of his patron James Bulwer (now in the National Gallery of Canada, no. 9657). At the time, Bulwer was in charge of the library at Blickling Hall with its famous collection of manuscripts, one of the most important being the Blickling Psalter.