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Room 3
Special Displays

This small room preserves a number of light-senstive portraits in wallcases displaying a selection of coins and medals of early English kings, as well as miniatures and cabinet pictures from the Tudor and Elizabethan period.



Room 3: wallcase Hidden: Unseen Paintings Beneath Tudor Portraits

3 portraits on display in Room 3 at the National Portrait Gallery

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844

Unknown man, formerly known as Richard Hooker

by Unknown artist
oil on panel, 16th century?
On display in Room 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 844

1704

Sir Francis Walsingham

possibly after John De Critz the Elder
oil on panel, 16th century (circa 1587)
On display in Room 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1704

4024

Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset

by Unknown artist
oil on panel, 1601
On display in Room 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4024