Painting in Britain 1500-1630 Production, Influences, and Patronage

Tarnya Cooper, Chief Curator, National Portrait Gallery, London,Aviva Bunstock, Head of the Dept of Conservation & Technology, Courtauld Institute of Art, London,Maurice Howard, Professor of History of Art, University of Sussex,Edward Town, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Yale Center for British Art

Introduction, Tarnya Cooper and Maurice Howard
Artists, Patrons and the Contexts for the Production of Painted Images in Tudor and Jacobean England, Tarnya Cooper and Maurice Howard
Part I Material Practices
Introduction, Aviva Burnstock
1. Interpreting the Results of Technical Analysis, Aviva Burnstock
2. Panel Making, Sources of Wood, Construction 'Trademarks' and Conclusions on the Making and Trade in the UK, Ian Tyers
3. Materials, Techniques and Practice: The Relationship between Artists' Treatises and Painting Methods and Techniques in Tudor and Jacobean England, Sophie Plender
4. Palette, Practice and Purpose: Pigments and their Employment by Native and Anglo-Netherlandish Artists in Tudor and Jacobean Paintings, Libby Sheldon
5. Artists' Underdrawing and the Workshop Transfer Process, Rachel Billinge
6. Binding Media in Tudor and Jacobean Paintings, Klaas Jan van den Berg, Katrien Keune, Suzan de Groot and Henk van Keulen
7. The Conservation of Paintings from the Tudor Era in the Context of Portraits of Elizabeth I, Marie Louise Sauerberg
8. Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, John de Critz the Elder, Robert Peake the Elder and William Larkin, Caroline Rae
Part 2 Tudor and Jacobean Painters and Their Workshops
Introduction, Tarnya Cooper
9. A Medieval Context for the Artistic Production of Painted Surfaces in England: Evidence from East Anglia (c.1400-50), Lucy J. Wrapson
10. Distinctive or Different? English Artistic Practices in a European Context, Susan Foister
11. 'Pictures by the Life': The Materials and Techniques of Holbein's Portrait Drawings, Victoria Button
12. Talent and Adversity: A Reassessment of the Life and Works of Hans Eworth of Antwerp and London (active 1540-74), Hope Walker
13. . Nicholas Hilliard's Workshop Practice Reconsidered, Katherine Coombs and Alan Derbyshire
14. 'A Good Eye, and Steadfast Hand': Painting in London 1547-1625, Edward Town
15. Heraldic Drawing and Painting in Early Modern England, Elizabeth Goldring
16. Migrant Artists in Jacobean London, Karen Hearn
17. Robert Peake: Portraits, Patrons and Technical Evidence, Catharine MacLeod
18. The Ambassador and the Painter: Sir Dudley Carleton Painted by Michiel van Mierevelt, Anita Jansen and Johanneke Verhave
19. Gesture Recognition: Adam de Colone and the Transmission of Portrait Types from the Low Countries and England to Scotland, David Taylor
Part 3 Patronage, Markets and Audiences
Introduction, Maurice Howard
20. 'pintor Yngles': The Earliest Evidence for Portraiture at the Court of Henry VII, Frederick Hepburn
21. SAT SUPER EST': A Portrait of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Charlotte Bolland
22. Heroes and Worthies: Emerging Antiquarianism and the Taste for Portrait Sets in England, Catherine Daunt
23. Painters' and Patrons' Circles in Provincial England, c.1580-1640, Robert Tittler
24. Collectors in England 1580-1630 - Evolutions in Taste, Susan Bracken