The Queen's House was built in 1616 by architect Inigo Jones for Anne of Denmark, wife of King James I (son of Mary Queen of Scots). With the construction of this building, Jones introduced classical architecture to England. James I is most noted for sponsoring the translation of the Bible into English, later known as the Authorized King James Version. He was also infamously known to personally supervise the torture of women accused of witchcraft.
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| The Queen's House |
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| Top - Queen Victoria, by Hermann Winterhalter, 1842 Bottom - The Sea Maidens, by Evelyn de Morgan, 1886 |
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| Carved figurehead from HMS Daring, unknown artist, 1844 |
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| The Great Hall |
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| The 'Armada Portraits' of Queen Elizabeth I, 1588 |
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| Anne of Denmark |
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| James I |
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| The Tudors, clockwise from top left - Henry VII (father of Henry VIII) Elizabeth I (daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn) Henry VIII Edward VI (son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour) |
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| View from terrace (Greenwich Observatory upper right) |
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| Greenwich Pensioners (veterans of the Battle of Trafalgar), by John Burnett, 1832 |
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| Greenwich Hospital from the North Bank of the Thames, by Canaletto. The Queen's House is very faint at the center. |
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| The bust near the center of the gallery is of Olaudah Equiano, author of a famous slave memoir - The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789) |
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| The Tulip Stairs, the first centrally unsupported staircase in England |
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