
Tag: Elizabethan


To a lady I sat next to at dinner

The perennial question: who is this portrait? A Gentleman of the Samways family

Whose ermine? The Tate’s Lady in Red by Marcus Gheeraerts

Heraldic motifs in late Elizabethan and Jacobean costume – Gheeraerts

Boat Race Day; Oxford melancholy, puritans and coffee.

Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage

Pendants in the Name

The conjuring power of paintings
