Citizen Portrait: Portrait Painting and the Urban Elite of Tudor and Jacobean England and Wales by Tarnya Cooper

Citizen Portrait: Portrait Painting and the Urban Elite of Tudor and Jacobean England and Wales

Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Tarnya Cooper

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For much of early modern history, the opportunity to be immortalized in a portrait was explicitly tied to social class: only landed elite and royalty had the money and power to commission such an endeavor. But in the second half of the 16th centur...

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