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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
Portrait of Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset, c.1615, by William Larkin
Credit: National Portrait Gallery
In 1615, a doctor’s widow and a countess were arrested for the murder of the courtier Sir Thomas Overbury. Allegations of witchcraft, adultery, poisoning, treason and corruption at the highest level sparked the greatest scandal of the Jacobean era. Their trials proved better drama than anything at The Globe.
“Here is now such hurrying to Westminster Hall to see the great lady arraigned as it distracts everybody’s mind from anything else,” wrote Sir Charles Montagu, who watched the countess’s trial from a specially erected tiered scaffold.
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