Juliet Carey is Senior Curator, Waddesdon Manor (The Rothschild Collection)

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Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton (1573–1624) (detail; c. 1593–97), unknown artist.

Reign makers – Roy Strong’s guide to Elizabethan portraits, reviewed

This authoritative survey gives some of the most familiar works of English art a new lease of life

16 Dec 2019
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Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603) (1576–78), attributed to Nicholas Hilliard.

A radical new look at the greatest of Elizabethan artists

Two portraits newly attributed to Nicholas Hilliard will transform our understanding of the artist

29 May 2017

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