Love's labour's found: Elizabethan & Jacobean portraiture

Abstract

Advances in the quality and availability of high-resolution imagery, infrared photography and x-ray analysis, as well greater accessibility to manuscript material now allows us to know more about Tudor and Jacobean portraiture than ever before.With modern technology at our fingertips, increasingly we are able to compare a far greater range of works of art and study the ways they were produced, shedding further light on areas such as attribution, subject identification, and circles of patronage. The exhibition catalogue for 'Love's Labour's Found' showcases a selection of paintings and portrait miniatures which have benefited from these advances. Exhibition:Philip Mould & Company, London, UK (21.04-28.05.2021).

Contents

Indroduction / Philip Mould -- 'The Elizabethan and Jacobean Scene' revisited: attribution, archives, and analysis in the Digital Age / Jessica David and Edward Town -- Making new connections: miniatures in context / Elizabeth Goldring -- A question of influence: Jean Decourt and Nicholas Hilliard's portraits of Henri III / William Aslet -- The limoges enameller Jean de Court and the court artist Jean Decourt: a question of identity / Suzanne Higgott -- Jean Decourt's portrait of Henri III: some technical observations / Alan Derbyshire.