| Galleries » British Paintings 1500-1850 » 16th-18th Century English Portraits |
| Elizabethan and Jacobean portraits were fine examples of
the emerging art of representation which burgeoned in England and on the European
continent from 1500 onwards. Very often, the artist is unknown given the distance in time
and the poor cataloguing of the day. However, the portraits of this early period convey a
freshness and naivety combined with an elegance of style and technique. |
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| Standing Portrait of an Elizabethan Lady | Portrait of an Elizabethan Lady |
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| Countess of Buckingham | Portrait of Henry VIII |