Explores the rich artistic culture of Elizabethan and Stuart England and the artists who forged their reputations in the alternately violent and decadent circles of some of the last exponents of absolute monarchy.
Richard Ormond is the former Director of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England. His publications include the Oxford Dictionaries of British Portraiture and Face of Monarchy: British Royalty Portrayed as well as approximately thirty other art historical works. James Taylor was Head of Paintings and Victorian Paintings Specialist at Phillips Fine Art Auctioneers, London, and then Curator of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. He has written several books on maritime art, including Marine Painting: Images of Sail, Sea and Shore and Yachts on Canvas: Artists' Images of Yachts from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day.
