About the Author

Elizabeth Cayzer studied at Birkbeck College, University of London, and completed an MA in Victorian Studies. She has worked in the Department of Prints and Drawings at The British Museum, in commercial art galleries researching and writing exhibition catalogues, and as a private art dealer.

Reviews

"A well documented study of a number of key portraits of the century in which she weaves together the lives of representative artists and sitters into an effective narrative of twentieth-century portraiture as an art form." -- Charles Saumarez Smith, Director, National Portrait Gallery.