Sir Nathaniel Bacon (1585-1627) was a seventeenth-century British gentleman painter whose significance as an experimenter and innovator in artistic practice is only just beginning to receive due recog
Cornelius Johnson (1593–1661) was a sympathetic and expressive painter, and it is surprising that he has not previously been the subject of a focused study. The quality and diversity of this currently
Marcus Gheeraerts II (1561/2-1636) was one of the most significant painters to work in England during the age of Shakespeare. Gheeraerts produced some of the most haunting and beautiful portraits in B
The Flemish Baroque painter Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) first came to Britain in 1620 at the behest of King James. When James died in 1625, his successor, Charles I, recognized van Dyck's skill in ca
