Citizen Portrait: Portrait Painting and the Urban Elite of Tudor and Jacobean England and Wales

by Tarnya Cooper

For much of early modern history, the opportunity to be immortalized in a portrait was explicitly tied to social class: only landed elite and royalty had the money and power to commission such an endeavor. But in the second half of the 16th century, access began to widen to the urban middle class, including merchants, lawyers, physicians, clergy, writers, and musicians. As portraiture proliferated in English cities and towns, the middle class gained...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300162790
• ISBN13: 9780300162790
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 10.0" x 11.5"