The Earl of Essex as a boy?
The Earl of Essex as a boy?
Elizabethan portraiture is a fascinating subject, not least because most of the sitters look like nobody on god's earth. Also, they are quite frequently identified as a) Queen Elizabeth or b) Mary Queen of Scots even when they are male. So arguing the identity of an Elizabethan portrait on the grounds it looks a bit like another portrait is not really the act of a rational being. Still...
Tweaked Essex 
 
Okay, it's a clumsily faked version of the Hilliard miniature from 1588. But I haven't altered the face - only cropped and reddened the hair. Compare the face with Flower Boy's.