About the Author

Catharine MacLeod is Senior Curator, Seventeenth - Century Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, London, whose other books include Painted Ladies: Women at the Court of Charles II (2001) and The Lost Prince: The Life & Death of Henry Stuart (2012).

Contributors i nclude Rab MacGibbon, Curator, 17th and 18th Century Collections, National Portrait Gallery; Katie Coombs, Curator, V&A; Alan Derbyshire, Head of Paper, Book and Paintings Conservation, V&A; Victoria Button, Senior Paper Conservator, V&A