About the Author

Roy Strong is a historian, a writer, a broadcaster, and a leading authority on Elizabethan portraiture. He was director of the National Portrait Gallery from 1967 until 1973 and of the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1974 until 1984

Reviews

"wonderful... This is a work of great scholarship, as well as being one of the most desirable books to come my way for ages" - Mary Keen, The Spectator "a delicious book" - Victoria Glendinning, Literary Review "Based on a profound knowledge of the subject, this superbly illustrated book amounts to a major achievement." - Richard Cork, The Times