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Woman Wearing a White Headdress, Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1526-8, The Royal Collection

Curator’s Choice: Charlotte Bolland’s Top 3 Portrait Drawings

Co-curator Charlotte Bolland selects her favourite works from our current exhibition of Renaissance and Baroque drawings, The Encounter: Drawings from Leonardo to Rembrandt.…

By Charlotte Bolland, Senior Curator, Research and 16th Century Collections

27 July 2017