Tudor and Elizabethan portraits

Film

Watch Painting Conservator Polly Saltmarsh demonstrate the techniques used in making Tudor art by re-creating the Queen Mary I portrait by Hans Eworth

 

Tudor and Elizabethan portraits

A selection of portraits from 1485 to 1603, many of which are on display at the Gallery or at Montacute House, our regional partner in Somerset. Portraits below are listed in chronological order.

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