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Curious Portraits of Dead Elizabethans: John Dee and Naked Angels: Why Was This Portrait Censored?
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Curious Portraits of Dead Elizabethans. Sunday, October 5, 2014. John Dee and Naked Angels: Why Was This Portrait Censored? Above: Henry, Prince of Wales, before and after overpaint removal. Below: John Dee (left) and Peake's Unknown Angel (right). T was not until 1985 that the portrait, now kept at Parham House in West Sussex, was tested with spectral technology and restored by the Hamilton Kerr Institute thereby revealing to us the strange, naked angel lurking beneath the paint. Dee was portrayed as a.