Master of the Countess of Warwick

Why this artist matters now

The Master of the Countess of Warwick is an unnamed painter who worked in Tudor England, producing dated work during the 1560s. The artist, who is not known by name, was given this moniker by Roy Strong, a specialist in Elizabethan portraiture. The painter is named after a portrait of Anne Russell, Countess of Warwick, which is in the collection of Woburn Abbey. The paintings have an affinity with the style of Elizabethan miniaturists. For example, in Four children making music it is possible to read the printed music of one of the partbooks.

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