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Philip Mould & Company exhibits a group of exceptional Elizabethan and Jacobean portraits
Workshop of Steven van der Meulen (fl. 1543d. 1563), Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (15321588), c. 1562. Oil on panel, 45 x 34 in (114 x 86 cm). Photo: Philip Mould & Company.
LONDON
.- This spring, Philip Mould & Company shines a spotlight onto a group of exceptional Elizabethan and Jacobean portraits that have benefited from the very latest developments in a formerly dark age of British art history.
In recent years, a new generation of art historians has benefited from improved access to unseen or overlooked documentary sources and transformative technological advances in the physical understanding of art, to produce fresh insights into the life and work of many of the artists of this era, shedding new light on their painting practices and the production of portraits in 16th and early 17th century Britain. This emerging period of art history is one that has a global fascination, wi