About the Author

Catharine MacLeod is Curator of Seventeenth-Century Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery. She is the author of Painted Ladies: Women at the Court of Charles II and is currently writing a catalogue raisonne of Peter Lely. Malcolm Smuts is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His research interests are in the court culture of England (1580 - 1640) and early Stuart politics and political thought. Timothy Wilks is a Senior Lecturer in the Visual Arts at Southampton Solent University. Since completing his doctoral thesis on Prince Henry (1988) he has maintained an interest in the early Stuart court.